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openSUSE Security Update : tomcat (openSUSE-2018-1504)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 119540

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for tomcat to 9.0.12 fixes the following issues :

See the full changelog at:
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-9.0-doc/changelog.html#Tomcat_9.0.12_( markt)

Security issues fixed :

 - CVE-2018-11784: When the default servlet in Apache Tomcat returned a redirect to a directory (e.g.
 redirecting to '/foo/' when the user requested '/foo') a specially crafted URL could be used to cause the redirect to be generated to any URI of the attackers choice. (bsc#1110850)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected tomcat packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b6d8ffdc

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1110850

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 119540

File Name: openSUSE-2018-1504.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/10/2018

Updated: 7/16/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-11784

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat-webapps, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat-lib, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat-admin-webapps, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat-embed, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat-servlet-4_0-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat-jsvc, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat-jsp-2_3-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat-el-3_0-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tomcat-docs-webapp

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/7/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-11784