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Debian DLA-2155-1 : tomcat8 security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 134879

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Tomcat8 is configured with the JMX Remote Lifecycle Listener, a local attacker without access to the Tomcat process or configuration files is able to manipulate the RMI registry to perform a man-in-the-middle attack to capture user names and passwords used to access the JMX interface. The attacker can then use these credentials to access the JMX interface and gain complete control over the Tomcat instance.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 8.0.14-1+deb8u16.

We recommend that you upgrade your tomcat8 packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00029.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/tomcat8

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 134879

File Name: debian_DLA-2155.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/25/2020

Updated: 3/21/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-12418

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tomcat8-admin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtomcat8-java, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libservlet3.1-java, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libservlet3.1-java-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tomcat8-docs, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tomcat8-user, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tomcat8, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tomcat8-common, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tomcat8-examples

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/24/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/23/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-12418