The version of Tomcat installed on the remote host is prior to 9.0.31. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the fixed_in_apache_tomcat_9.0.31_security-9 advisory.

  - When using the Apache JServ Protocol (AJP), care must be taken when trusting incoming connections to     Apache Tomcat. Tomcat treats AJP connections as having higher trust than, for example, a similar HTTP     connection. If such connections are available to an attacker, they can be exploited in ways that may be     surprising. In Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.0.30, 8.5.0 to 8.5.50 and 7.0.0 to 7.0.99, Tomcat shipped     with an AJP Connector enabled by default that listened on all configured IP addresses. It was expected     (and recommended in the security guide) that this Connector would be disabled if not required. This     vulnerability report identified a mechanism that allowed: - returning arbitrary files from anywhere in the     web application - processing any file in the web application as a JSP Further, if the web application     allowed file upload and stored those files within the web application (or the attacker was able to control     the content of the web application by some other means) then this, along with the ability to process a     file as a JSP, made remote code execution possible. It is important to note that mitigation is only     required if an AJP port is accessible to untrusted users. Users wishing to take a defence-in-depth     approach and block the vector that permits returning arbitrary files and execution as JSP may upgrade to     Apache Tomcat 9.0.31, 8.5.51 or 7.0.100 or later. A number of changes were made to the default AJP     Connector configuration in 9.0.31 to harden the default configuration. It is likely that users upgrading     to 9.0.31, 8.5.51 or 7.0.100 or later will need to make small changes to their configurations.
    (CVE-2020-1938)

  - In Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.30, 8.5.0 to 8.5.50 and 7.0.0 to 7.0.99 the HTTP header parsing code used     an approach to end-of-line parsing that allowed some invalid HTTP headers to be parsed as valid. This led     to a possibility of HTTP Request Smuggling if Tomcat was located behind a reverse proxy that incorrectly     handled the invalid Transfer-Encoding header in a particular manner. Such a reverse proxy is considered     unlikely. (CVE-2020-1935)

  - The refactoring present in Apache Tomcat 9.0.28 to 9.0.30, 8.5.48 to 8.5.50 and 7.0.98 to 7.0.99     introduced a regression. The result of the regression was that invalid Transfer-Encoding headers were     incorrectly processed leading to a possibility of HTTP Request Smuggling if Tomcat was located behind a     reverse proxy that incorrectly handled the invalid Transfer-Encoding header in a particular manner. Such a     reverse proxy is considered unlikely. (CVE-2019-17569)

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

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Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 < 9.0.31 multiple vulnerabilities

critical Nessus Plugin ID 133845

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Version 1.19 May 23, 2024, 8:37 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202405232037
Version 1.17 Jan 11, 2023, 11:56 PM Exploit attributes ("Exploited by malware" set to "True") Plugin Feed: 202301112356
Version 1.16 Dec 6, 2022, 6:51 PM Reference Plugin Feed: 202212061851