GHSA-xjgh-84hx-56c5

Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type Apache Tomcat

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2017-12617
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:H

Description

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.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
Maven · org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalinaintroduced 9.0.0.M1, fixed 9.0.1
Maven · org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalinaintroduced 8.5.0, fixed 8.5.23
Maven · org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalinaintroduced 8.0.0-RC1, fixed 8.0.47
Maven · org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-catalinaintroduced 7.0.0, fixed 7.0.82
Maven · org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-coreintroduced 9.0.0.M1, fixed 9.0.1
Maven · org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-coreintroduced 8.5.0, fixed 8.5.23
Maven · org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-coreintroduced 8.0.0-RC1, fixed 8.0.47
Maven · org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-coreintroduced 7.0.0, fixed 7.0.82

References

Sources

SourceLicence
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