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Apache Tomcat CGIServlet enableCmdLineArguments Vulnerability

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Disclosed
2019-04-10
Created
2019-07-02

Description

This module exploits a vulnerability in Apache Tomcat's CGIServlet component. When the
enableCmdLineArguments setting is set to true, a remote user can abuse this to execute
system commands, and gain remote code execution.

Authors

Yakov Shafranovich
sinn3r sinn3r@metasploit.com

Platform

Windows

Architectures

x86, x64

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 exploit/windows/http/tomcat_cgi_cmdlineargs
    msf exploit(tomcat_cgi_cmdlineargs) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(tomcat_cgi_cmdlineargs) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(tomcat_cgi_cmdlineargs) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(tomcat_cgi_cmdlineargs) > exploit
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