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tomcat -- Remote Code Execution

Affected packages
7.0.0	<=	tomcat	<=	7.0.81
8.0.0	<=	tomcat	<=	8.0.46
8.5.0	<=	tomcat	<=	8.5.22
9.0.0	<=	tomcat	<	9.0.1

Details

VuXML ID	c0dae634-4820-4505-850d-b1c975d0f67d
Discovery	2017-10-04
Entry	2017-10-06

tomcat developers reports:

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.

[source]

References

CVE Name	CVE-2017-12617
URL	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100954
URL	https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3fd341a604c4e9eab39e7eaabbbac39c30101a022acc11dd09d7ebcb@%3Cannounce.tomcat.apache.org%3E