Security News > 2020 > March > Hackers Scanning for Apache Tomcat Servers Vulnerable to Ghostcat Attacks
Hackers have started scanning the web in search of Apache Tomcat servers affected by a recently disclosed vulnerability tracked as CVE-2020-1938 and dubbed Ghostcat.
Bad Packets told SecurityWeek on Wednesday that the scanning activity they have detected is designed to enumerate vulnerable servers by checking for the path "/WEB-INF/web.
The Ghostcat vulnerability has existed for more than a decade and it affects versions 6, 7, 8 and 9 of Apache Tomcat.
The security hole is related to the Apache JServ Protocol protocol, which is designed to improve performance by proxying inbound requests from a web server through to an application server.
Ghostcat affects the default configuration of Tomcat and many servers are vulnerable to attacks directly from the internet.
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Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-02-24 | CVE-2020-1938 | When using the Apache JServ Protocol (AJP), care must be taken when trusting incoming connections to Apache Tomcat. | 9.8 |