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CVE-2019-0232

8.1 highEPSS 100%

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/).

Severity

CVSS 3.0

8.1 high
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
100% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 99% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-78
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-8vmx-qmch-mpqgMavenorg.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core>=9.0.0.M1 <9.0.179.0.17
GHSA-8vmx-qmch-mpqgMavenorg.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core>=8.0.0 <8.5.408.5.40
GHSA-8vmx-qmch-mpqgMavenorg.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core>=7.0.0 <7.0.947.0.94

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