CVE-2020-1938 is a file read/inclusion vulnerability in the AJP connector in Apache Tomcat. This is enabled by default with a default configuration port of 8009. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to read web application files from a vulnerable server. In instances where the vulnerable server allows file uploads, an attacker could upload malicious JavaServer Pages (JSP) code within a variety of file types and trigger this vulnerability to gain remote code execution (RCE).
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 2 - Core | tomcat | 2020-03-09 19:23 | ALAS2-2020-1402 |
Amazon Linux 2 - Tomcat8.5 Extra | tomcat | 2023-08-21 20:58 | ALAS2TOMCAT8.5-2023-012 |
Amazon Linux 1 | tomcat7 | 2020-03-09 19:20 | ALAS-2020-1352 |
Amazon Linux 1 | tomcat8 | 2020-03-09 19:21 | ALAS-2020-1353 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv3 | 7.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
NVD | CVSSv3 | 9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |