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OS Command Injection Affecting tomcat8-lib package, versions <0:8.5.40-1.79.amzn1

Severity

 Recommended
high

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
97.37% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-TOMCAT8LIB-1718563
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed15 Apr 2019
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Introduced: 15 Apr 2019

CVE-2019-0232  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-78  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 tomcat8-lib to version 0:8.5.40-1.79.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2019-1208.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tomcat8-lib package and not the tomcat8-lib package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2018.03 relevant fixed versions and status.

When running on Windows with enableCmdLineArguments enabled, the CGI Servlet in Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.17, 8.5.0 to 8.5.39 and 7.0.0 to 7.0.93 is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution due to a bug in the way the JRE passes command line arguments to Windows. The CGI Servlet is disabled by default. The CGI option enableCmdLineArguments is disable by default in Tomcat 9.0.x (and will be disabled by default in all versions in response to this vulnerability). For a detailed explanation of the JRE behaviour, see Markus Wulftange's blog (https://codewhitesec.blogspot.com/2016/02/java-and-command-line-injections-in-windows.html) and this archived MSDN blog (https://web.archive.org/web/20161228144344/https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/twistylittlepassagesallalike/2011/04/23/everyone-quotes-command-line-arguments-the-wrong-way/).

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