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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Tomcat vulnerabilities (USN-4128-2)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 129048

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4128-2 advisory.

 It was discovered that the Tomcat 9 SSI printenv command echoed user

 provided data without escaping it. An attacker could possibly use this

 issue to perform an XSS attack. (CVE-2019-0221)

 It was discovered that Tomcat 9 did not address HTTP/2 connection window exhaustion on write while addressing CVE-2019-0199. An attacker could

 possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2019-10072)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

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 affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4128-2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 129048

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4128-2.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/19/2019

Updated: 8/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

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-2019-0221

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtomcat9-java, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat9-user, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat9-examples, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat9-admin, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat9, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat9-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtomcat9-embed-java

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/18/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/10/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-0221, CVE-2019-10072

USN: 4128-2