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CVE-2019-0232

high · 8.1

A public exploit / detection template exists

Weaponised detection is publicly available, which meaningfully raises real-world risk regardless of CVSS. nuclei-templates

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/).

8.1
CVSS
99.7%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
100th
EPSS percentile
2019-04-15
Published

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-78

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
apachetomcat>= 7.0.0, <= 7.0.93
apachetomcat>= 8.5.0, <= 8.5.39
apachetomcat>= 9.0.1, <= 9.0.17
apachetomcat9.0.0
apachetomcat9.0.0
apachetomcat9.0.0
apachetomcat9.0.0
apachetomcat9.0.0
apachetomcat9.0.0
apachetomcat9.0.0
apachetomcat9.0.0
apachetomcat9.0.0
apachetomcat9.0.0
apachetomcat9.0.0
apachetomcat9.0.0
apachetomcat9.0.0
apachetomcat9.0.0
apachetomcat9.0.0
apachetomcat9.0.0
apachetomcat9.0.0
apachetomcat9.0.0
apachetomcat9.0.0
apachetomcat9.0.0
apachetomcat9.0.0
apachetomcat9.0.0
apachetomcat9.0.0
apachetomcat9.0.0
apachetomcat9.0.0
apachetomcat9.0.0
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References

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