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Apache Tomcat
Apache Tomcat is the reference implementation of Jakarta Servlet, Jakarta Pages, and Jakarta WebSocket — it is the default Java application server for millions of deployments, and it ships inside countless appliances, CI/CD tools, and management consoles that developers do not realise are running Tomcat under the hood.
For an attacker, Tomcat is valuable for three reasons: the Manager and Host Manager web applications deploy arbitrary WAR files (immediate RCE), the AJP connector on port 8009 is frequently exposed and still exploitable via Ghostcat, and the path normalisation difference between a reverse proxy and Tomcat enables authentication and security-constraint bypass.