🛡️ CVE-2013-2185 — tomcat

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-502 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Apache Tomcat

The readObject method in the DiskFileItem class in Apache Tomcat and JBoss Web, as used in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.1.0 and Red Hat JBoss Portal 6.0.0, allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a NULL byte in a file name in a serialized instance, a similar issue to CVE-2013-2186.

NOTE: this issue is reportedly disputed by the Apache Tomcat team, although Red Hat considers it a vulnerability. The dispute appears to regard whether it is the responsibility of applications to avoid providing untrusted data to be deserialized, or whether this class should inherently protect against this issue. Regardless the tomcat maintainers have altered the behavior of this method in version 7.0.39.

Weakness class

CVE-2013-2185 is classified as CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data. Serialised data from an untrusted source is reconstructed into objects, which can trigger code during the process.

Affected software

CVE-2013-2185 is recorded against 1 package.

  • org.apache.tomcat:tomcat (fixed in 7.0.39)

Timeline and source

Published on 17 May 2022 and last revised on 4 December 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Package)
openwall.com (Web)
rhn.redhat.com (Web)
rhn.redhat.com (Web)
rhn.redhat.com (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE CWE-502
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-17
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-12-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.apache.tomcat:tomcat — 7.0.39

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