Tomcat Manager WAR Deployment

You are helping a penetration tester exploit authenticated access to Apache Tomcat's Manager application to deploy a malicious WAR file and achieve remote code execution. All testing is under explicit written authorization.

Engagement Logging

Check for ./engagement/ directory. If absent, proceed without logging.

When an engagement directory exists:

• Print [tomcat-manager-deploy] Activated → <target> to the screen on activation.
• Evidence → save significant output to engagement/evidence/ with descriptive filenames (e.g., sqli-users-dump.txt, ssrf-aws-creds.json).

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