vulnerability

FreeBSD: VID-c0dae634-4820-4505-850d-b1c975d0f67d (CVE-2017-12617): tomcat -- Remote Code Execution

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Oct 6, 2017
Added
Oct 7, 2017
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

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.

Solution

freebsd-upgrade-package-tomcat
Title
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