Command Injection Affecting tomcat package, versions [7.0.0,7.0.94)[8.5.0,8.5.40)[9.0.1,9.0.19)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
97.37% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TOMCAT-2382380
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed15 Apr 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Apr 2019

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

How to fix?

Upgrade tomcat to version 7.0.94, 8.5.40, 9.0.19 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection. 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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