Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package tomcat7  (opens in a new tab)


Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Attacked
EPSS
99.71% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-TOMCAT7-617874
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed19 Sept 2017

Introduced: 19 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-12615  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-434  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tomcat7 package and not the tomcat7 package as distributed by Ubuntu.

When running Apache Tomcat 7.0.0 to 7.0.79 on Windows with HTTP PUTs enabled (e.g. via setting the readonly initialisation parameter of the Default 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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