Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Apache Tomcat. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code, bypass security restrictions and obtain sensitive information.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

1. A vulnerability related to VirtualDirContext can be exploited remotely via specially designed request possibly to bypass security restrictions and/or obtain sensitive information;
2. An unspecified vulnerability can be exploited remotely via specially designed request possibly to execute arbitrary code.

Technical details

Vulnerability (2) affects Windows systems with HTTP PUTs enabled only.

NB: This vulnerability does not have any public CVSS rating, so rating can be changed by the time.

Apache Tomcat, versions from 7.0.0 to 7.0.80

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Apache Tomcat 7.x Security Vulnerabilities

The following public exploits exists for this vulnerability:

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42953

Malware exists for this vulnerability. Usually such malware is classified as Exploit. More details.