# CVE-2025-24813: Apache Tomcat - RCE

> Live exploitation tracking for CVE-2025-24813 by the CrowdSec Live Exploit Tracker, built from real-world attack data crowdsourced from CrowdSec's global network.

Page: https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2025-24813

## Key facts

- **Exploitation phase:** Limited Exploitation. The vulnerability is known but shows very limited attacker interest or exploitation activity.
- **CVSS score:** 9.8
- **Public exploit available:** Yes
- **Affected products:** Apache Tomcat
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-44 (Path Equivalence: 'file.name' (Internal Dot)); CWE-502 (Deserialization of Untrusted Data)
- **Tags:** web_server

## Description

Path Equivalence: 'file.Name' (Internal Dot) leading to Remote Code Execution and/or Information disclosure and/or malicious content added to uploaded files via write enabled.

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2025-24813](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2025-24813) is a critical vulnerability involving path equivalence that can allow remote code execution, information disclosure, or the addition of malicious content through improperly handled writable file paths.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 17th of March 2025.

CrowdSec has not observed any significant exploitation activity targeting CVE-2025-24813 across its network. As a result, no community-driven trend analysis is available for this vulnerability at this time.

Detected exploitation attempts are characterized by requests to URLs such as `/check.txt` or paths under `/uploads/../sessions/` ending in `.session`.

## Timeline

- 2025-03-10: CVE Published. CVE-2025-24813 is published to NVD.
- 2025-03-17: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2025-24813 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.
- 2025-03-19: CrowdSec First Seen. CrowdSec observes in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2025-24813 for the first time.
- 2025-04-01: CISA KEV. CVE-2025-24813 is added to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog by CISA.
- 2025-04-22: CISA Remediation Deadline. Expiration of the CISA remediation deadline as described in [BOD 22-01](https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/bod-22-01-reducing-significant-risk-known-exploited-vulnerabilities).

## References

- https://lists.apache.org/thread/j5fkjv2k477os90nczf2v9l61fb0kkgq
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2025/CVE-2025-24813.yaml
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00003.html
- https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-24813-mitigate-apache-tomcat-rce
- https://github.com/absholi7ly/POC-CVE-2025-24813/blob/main/README.md
- https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-24813-detect-apache-tomcat-rce
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250321-0001/

## Live exploitation data

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