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Tomcat Administration Tool Default Access

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Disclosed
N/A
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

Detect the Tomcat administration interface. The administration interface is included in versions 5.5 and lower.
Port 8180 is the default for FreeBSD, 8080 for all others.

Author

Matteo Cantoni [email protected]

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use auxiliary/admin/http/tomcat_administration
    msf auxiliary(tomcat_administration) > show actions
        ...actions...
    msf auxiliary(tomcat_administration) > set ACTION < action-name >
    msf auxiliary(tomcat_administration) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf auxiliary(tomcat_administration) > run
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