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CVE-2020-1938

Public on 2020-02-24
Modified on 2021-08-20
Description

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).

Severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
7.6
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
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

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
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