Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina package, versions [,7.0.82) [8,8.0.46) [8.5,8.5.22) [9.0.0.M1, 9.0.1)


0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Mature
    EPSS 97.53% (100th percentile)
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NVD
8.1 high
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Red Hat
8.1 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHETOMCAT-451516
  • published 11 Oct 2017
  • disclosed 21 Sep 2017
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina to version 7.0.82, 8.0.46, 8.5.22, 9.0.1 or higher.

Overview

org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalina is a Tomcat Servlet Engine Core Classes and Standard implementations.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. When running Apache Tomcat versions 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.0, 8.5.0 to 8.5.22, 8.0.0.RC1 to 8.0.46 and 7.0.0 to 7.0.81 with HTTP PUTs enabled (e.g. via setting the readonly initialisation parameter of the Default servlet to false) it was possible to upload a JSP file to the server via a specially crafted request. This JSP could then be requested and any code it contained would be executed by the server.

This is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-12615.