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Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type Apache Tomcat

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 14, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Mar 7, 2024

Package

maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 9.0.0.M1, <= 9.0.0M27
>= 8.5.0, <= 8.5.22
>= 7.0.0, <= 7.0.81
>= 8.0.0RC1, <= 8.0.46

Patched versions

9.0.1
8.5.23
7.0.82
8.0.47

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 4, 2017
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 14, 2022
Reviewed Jul 1, 2022
Last updated Mar 7, 2024

Severity

High
8.1
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2017-12617

GHSA ID

GHSA-xjgh-84hx-56c5

Source code

Credits

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