{"id":"GHSA-8vmx-qmch-mpqg","summary":"Apache Tomcat OS Command Injection vulnerability","details":"When running on Windows with enableCmdLineArguments enabled, the CGI Servlet in Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.17, 8.5.0 to 8.5.39 and 7.0.0 to 7.0.93 is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution due to a bug in the way the JRE passes command line arguments to Windows. The CGI Servlet is disabled by default. The CGI option enableCmdLineArguments is disable by default in Tomcat 9.0.x (and will be disabled by default in all versions in response to this vulnerability). For a detailed explanation of the JRE behaviour, see Markus Wulftange's blog (https://codewhitesec.blogspot.com/2016/02/java-and-command-line-injections-in-windows.html) and this archived MSDN blog (https://web.archive.org/web/20161228144344/https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/twistylittlepassagesallalike/2011/04/23/everyone-quotes-command-line-arguments-the-wrong-way/).","aliases":["CVE-2019-0232"],"modified":"2024-03-16T05:19:35.262268Z","published":"2019-04-18T14:27:35Z","database_specific":{"github_reviewed_at":"2020-06-16T21:26:43Z","nvd_published_at":"2019-04-15T15:29:00Z","cwe_ids":["CWE-78"],"severity":"HIGH","github_reviewed":true},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-0232"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r3bbb800a816d0a51eccc5a228c58736960a9fffafa581a225834d97d%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r3bbb800a816d0a51eccc5a228c58736960a9fffafa581a225834d97d@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r48c1444845fe15a823e1374674bfc297d5008a5453788099ea14caf0%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r48c1444845fe15a823e1374674bfc297d5008a5453788099ea14caf0@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r6ccee4e849bc77df0840c7f853f6bd09d426f6741247da2b7429d5d9%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r6ccee4e849bc77df0840c7f853f6bd09d426f6741247da2b7429d5d9@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r6d03e45b81eab03580cf7f8bb51cb3e9a1b10a2cc0c6a2d3cc92ed0c%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r6d03e45b81eab03580cf7f8bb51cb3e9a1b10a2cc0c6a2d3cc92ed0c@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9136ff5b13e4f1941360b5a309efee2c114a14855578c3a2cbe5d19c%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9136ff5b13e4f1941360b5a309efee2c114a14855578c3a2cbe5d19c@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/raba0fabaf4d56d4325ab2aca8814f0b30a237ab83d8106b115ee279a%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/raba0fabaf4d56d4325ab2aca8814f0b30a237ab83d8106b115ee279a@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190419-0001"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20161228144344/https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/twistylittlepassagesallalike/2011/04/23/everyone-quotes-command-line-arguments-the-wrong-way"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200227030103/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107906"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.broadcom.com/support/fibre-channel-networking/security-advisories/brocade-security-advisory-2019-784"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2019-5072835.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.synology.com/security/advisory/Synology_SA_19_17"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://wwws.nightwatchcybersecurity.com/2019/04/30/remote-code-execution-rce-in-cgi-servlet-apache-tomcat-on-windows-cve-2019-0232"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1712"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/uncovering-cve-2019-0232-a-remote-code-execution-vulnerability-in-apache-tomcat"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://codewhitesec.blogspot.com/2016/02/java-and-command-line-injections-in-windows.html"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/apache/tomcat"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/1dd0a59c1295cc08ce4c9e7edae5ad2268acc9ba55adcefa0532e5ba%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/1dd0a59c1295cc08ce4c9e7edae5ad2268acc9ba55adcefa0532e5ba@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3d19773b4cf0377db62d1e9328bf9160bf1819f04f988315086931d7%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3d19773b4cf0377db62d1e9328bf9160bf1819f04f988315086931d7@%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/52ffb9fbf661245386a83a661183d13f1de2e5779fa23837a08e02ac%40%3Ccommits.ofbiz.apache.org%3E"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/52ffb9fbf661245386a83a661183d13f1de2e5779fa23837a08e02ac@%3Ccommits.ofbiz.apache.org%3E"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5f297a4b9080b5f65a05bc139596d0e437d6a539b25e31d29d028767%40%3Cannounce.tomcat.apache.org%3E"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5f297a4b9080b5f65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