Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type Affecting tomcat7-docs-webapp package, versions <0:7.0.82-1.30.amzn1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
97.33% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-TOMCAT7DOCSWEBAPP-1708600
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed4 Oct 2017

Introduced: 4 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-12617  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-434  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 tomcat7-docs-webapp to version 0:7.0.82-1.30.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2017-913.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tomcat7-docs-webapp package and not the tomcat7-docs-webapp package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2018.03 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

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