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    CVE-2017-12615

    When running Apache Tomcat 7.0.0 to 7.0.79 on Windows with HTTP PUTs enabled (e.g. via setting the readonly initialisation parameter of the Default 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.

    Published:Sep 19, 2017
    Last Modified:Apr 21, 2026
    EPS:Sep 19, 2017
    EPSS Score:0.94198
    CVSS Score:8.1

    CISA Notification

    Description

    When running Apache Tomcat 7.0.0 to 7.0.79 on Windows with HTTP PUTs enabled (e.g. via setting the readonly initialisation parameter of the Default 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.

    Required Action:

    Apply updates per vendor instructions.

    Notes:

    No extra notes provided.

    Due Date
    Apr 15, 2022
    1610 days ago
    Alert Date
    Mar 25, 2022
    1631 days ago

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Apache
    Product
    Tomcat
    Vendor
    Microsoft
    Product
    Windows
    Vendor
    Netapp
    Product
    7-mode Transition Tool
    Vendor
    Netapp
    Product
    Oncommand Balance
    Vendor
    Netapp
    Product
    Oncommand Shift
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux Desktop
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux Eus
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux Eus Compute Node
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux For Ibm Z Systems
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux For Ibm Z Systems Eus
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux For Power Big Endian
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux For Power Big Endian Eus
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux For Power Little Endian
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux For Power Little Endian Eus
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux For Scientific Computing
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux Server
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux Server Aus
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux Server For Power Little Endian Update Services For Sap Solutions
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux Server Tus
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux Server Update Services For Sap Solutions
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux Workstation
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Jboss Enterprise Web Server
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Jboss Enterprise Web Server Text-only Advisories

    Exploits

    http://breaktoprotect.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-case-of-cve-2017-12615-tomcat-7-put.htmlhttps://github.com/breaktoprotect/CVE-2017-12615http://breaktoprotect.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-case-of-cve-2017-12615-tomcat-7-put.htmlhttps://github.com/breaktoprotect/CVE-2017-12615https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42953https://github.com/1337g/CVE-2017-12615https://github.com/BeyondCy/CVE-2017-12615https://github.com/breaktoprotect/CVE-2017-12615https://github.com/cved-sources/cve-2017-12615https://github.com/cyberharsh/Tomcat-CVE-2017-12615https://github.com/edyekomu/CVE-2017-12615-PoChttps://github.com/Fa1c0n35/CVE-2017-12615https://github.com/ianxtianxt/CVE-2017-12615https://github.com/K3ysTr0K3R/CVE-2017-12615https://github.com/lizhianyuguangming/TomcatScanProhttps://github.com/mefulton/cve-2017-12615https://github.com/netw0rk7/CVE-2017-12615-Home-Labhttps://github.com/Shellkeys/CVE-2017-12615https://github.com/tpt11fb/AttackTomcathttps://github.com/w0x68y/CVE-2017-12615-EXPhttps://github.com/wsg00d/cve-2017-12615https://github.com/wudidwo/CVE-2017-12615-pochttps://github.com/xiaokp7/Tomcat_PUT_GUI_EXPhttps://github.com/zi0Black/POC-CVE-2017-12615-or-CVE-2017-12717

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-1 Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs
    CAPEC-10 Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    CAPEC-101 Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    CAPEC-104 Cross Zone Scripting
    CAPEC-108 Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    CAPEC-109 Object Relational Mapping Injection
    CAPEC-110 SQL Injection through SOAP Parameter Tampering
    CAPEC-120 Double Encoding
    CAPEC-13 Subverting Environment Variable Values
    CAPEC-135 Format String Injection
    CAPEC-136 LDAP Injection
    CAPEC-14 Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-153 Input Data Manipulation
    CAPEC-182 Flash Injection
    CAPEC-209 XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch
    CAPEC-22 Exploiting Trust in Client
    CAPEC-23 File Content Injection
    CAPEC-230 Serialized Data with Nested Payloads
    CAPEC-231 Oversized Serialized Data Payloads
    CAPEC-24 Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-250 XML Injection
    CAPEC-261 Fuzzing for garnering other adjacent user/sensitive data
    CAPEC-267 Leverage Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-28 Fuzzing
    CAPEC-3 Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters
    CAPEC-31 Accessing/Intercepting/Modifying HTTP Cookies
    CAPEC-42 MIME Conversion
    CAPEC-43 Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers
    CAPEC-45 Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links
    CAPEC-46 Overflow Variables and Tags
    CAPEC-47 Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion
    CAPEC-473 Signature Spoof
    CAPEC-52 Embedding NULL Bytes
    CAPEC-53 Postfix, Null Terminate, and Backslash
    CAPEC-588 DOM-Based XSS
    CAPEC-63 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
    CAPEC-64 Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-664 Server Side Request Forgery
    CAPEC-67 String Format Overflow in syslog()
    CAPEC-7 Blind SQL Injection
    CAPEC-71 Using Unicode Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-72 URL Encoding
    CAPEC-73 User-Controlled Filename
    CAPEC-78 Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-79 Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-8 Buffer Overflow in an API Call
    CAPEC-80 Using UTF-8 Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-81 Web Server Logs Tampering
    CAPEC-83 XPath Injection
    CAPEC-85 AJAX Footprinting
    CAPEC-88 OS Command Injection
    CAPEC-9 Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities

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    References

    http://breaktoprotect.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-case-of-cve-2017-12615-tomcat-7-put.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100901
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039392
    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3080
    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3081
    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3113
    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3114
    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0465
    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0466
    https://github.com/breaktoprotect/CVE-2017-12615
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/388a323769f1dff84c9ec905455aa73fbcb20338e3c7eb131457f708%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3d19773b4cf0377db62d1e9328bf9160bf1819f04f988315086931d7%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/845312a10aabbe2c499fca94003881d2c79fc993d85f34c1f5c77424%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8fcb1e2d5895413abcf266f011b9918ae03e0b7daceb118ffbf23f8c%40%3Cannounce.tomcat.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r6d03e45b81eab03580cf7f8bb51cb3e9a1b10a2cc0c6a2d3cc92ed0c%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9136ff5b13e4f1941360b5a309efee2c114a14855578c3a2cbe5d19c%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
    https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171018-0001/
    https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42953/
    https://www.synology.com/support/security/Synology_SA_17_54_Tomcat
    http://breaktoprotect.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-case-of-cve-2017-12615-tomcat-7-put.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100901
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039392
    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3080
    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3081
    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3113
    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3114
    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0465
    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0466
    https://github.com/breaktoprotect/CVE-2017-12615
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/388a323769f1dff84c9ec905455aa73fbcb20338e3c7eb131457f708%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3d19773b4cf0377db62d1e9328bf9160bf1819f04f988315086931d7%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/845312a10aabbe2c499fca94003881d2c79fc993d85f34c1f5c77424%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8fcb1e2d5895413abcf266f011b9918ae03e0b7daceb118ffbf23f8c%40%3Cannounce.tomcat.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r6d03e45b81eab03580cf7f8bb51cb3e9a1b10a2cc0c6a2d3cc92ed0c%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9136ff5b13e4f1941360b5a309efee2c114a14855578c3a2cbe5d19c%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
    https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171018-0001/
    https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42953/
    https://www.synology.com/support/security/Synology_SA_17_54_Tomcat
    https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2017-12615

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High