Remote Code Execution in Apache Tomcat: What You Should Know
CVE-2025-24813 is a Critical (CVSS 9.8), unauthenticated, remotely exploitable vulnerability in Apache Tomcat, driven by insufficient file name normalization during partial PUT request ha...
Apache Tomcat is an open-source web server and servlet container. It provides a platform for running Java-based web applications, handling tasks such as serving web pages, processing HTTP requests, and executing Java servlets and JSPs (JavaServer Pages) behind the scenes.
Tomcat has been in widespread use for a long time and is trusted in both enterprise and smaller environments. It is frequently bundled into third-party software packages or embedded in custom-built applications.
Because Tomcat is lightweight, easy to configure, and flexible, it ends up deployed in a very wide variety of places. This ubiquity is precisely why a vulnerability of this kind carries such broad potential impact — any organization running an out-of-date instance is potentially exposed.
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3 sections- 1 Table of Contents
- 2 Module 1: The Apache Tomcat Partial PUT Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2025-24813)
- 3 Summary
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