RHEL 6 : tomcat6 (RHSA-2017:3080)

high Nessus Plugin ID 104250

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for tomcat6.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2017:3080 advisory.

- tomcat: Incorrect handling of pipelined requests when send file was used (CVE-2017-5647)

- tomcat: Security constrained bypass in error page mechanism (CVE-2017-5664)

- tomcat: Remote Code Execution via JSP Upload (CVE-2017-12615)

- tomcat: Remote Code Execution bypass for CVE-2017-12615 (CVE-2017-12617)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL tomcat6 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2017:3080.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 104250

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2017-3080.nasl

Version: 3.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 10/30/2017

Updated: 4/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-12617

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat6-el-2.1-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat6-webapps, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat6-jsp-2.1-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat6-docs-webapp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat6-servlet-2.5-api, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat6-admin-webapps, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat6-lib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat6-javadoc

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/29/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/17/2017

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 4/15/2022

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Tomcat RCE via JSP Upload Bypass)

Elliot (Apache Tomcat for Windows HTTP PUT Method File Upload)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-12615, CVE-2017-12617, CVE-2017-5647, CVE-2017-5664

CWE: 20, 200, 266

RHSA: 2017:3080

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