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Rewterz Threat Advisory – CVE-2019-0859 – Win32k Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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Rewterz Threat Advisory – CVE-2019-0232 – Apache Tomcat CGI Servlet Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

Severity

High

Analysis Summary

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).

Impact

System access

Affected Vendors

Apache Foundation

Affected Products

  • Apache Tomcat 7.x
  • Apache Tomcat 8.x
  • Apache Tomcat 9.x

Remediation

Update to version 7.0.94, 8.5.40, or 9.0.19.

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