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Apache Tomcat Remote Code Execution on Windows
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>
<!-- The mapping for the CGI Gateway servlet -->
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>cgi</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/cgi-bin/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
Edit content.xml file
<Context privileged="true">
<!-- Default set of monitored resources. If one of these changes, the -->
<!-- web application will be reloaded. -->
<WatchedResource>WEB-INF/web.xml</WatchedResource>
<WatchedResource>${catalina.base}/conf/web.xml</WatchedResource>
<!-- Uncomment this to disable session persistence across Tomcat restarts -->
<!--
<Manager pathname="" />
-->
</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