THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2013-2185
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2013-2185

Tomcat vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
7.2%
EPSS pct
94th
Exploited
No known
The readObject method in the DiskFileItem class in Apache Tomcat and JBoss Web, as used in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.1.0 and Red Hat JBoss Portal 6.0.0, allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a NULL byte in a file name in a serialized instance, a similar issue to CVE-2013-2186. NOTE: this issue is reportedly disputed by the Apache Tomcat team, although Red Hat considers it a vulnerability. The dispute appears to regard whether it is the responsibility of applications to avoid providing untrusted data to be deserialized, or whether this class should inherently protect against this issue
Affected vendor
Apache
Affected product
Tomcat
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation
Published
2014-01-19

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 7.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2013-2185

  • Confirm whether Apache Tomcat is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2013-2185.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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