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openSUSE Security Update : tomcat (openSUSE-2020-711)

high Nessus Plugin ID 136889

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for tomcat fixes the following issues :

 - Update to Tomcat 9.0.35. See changelog at http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-9.0-doc/changelog.html#T omcat_9.0.35_(markt)

 - CVE-2020-9484 (bsc#1171928) Apache Tomcat Remote Code Execution via session persistence

 If an attacker was able to control the contents and name of a file on a server configured to use the PersistenceManager, then the attacker could have triggered a remote code execution via deserialization of the file under their control.

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP1:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected tomcat packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?aa77797d

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1171928

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 136889

File Name: openSUSE-2020-711.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/26/2020

Updated: 12/5/2022

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-9484

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.3

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: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:15.1, 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: 5/24/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/20/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-9484

IAVA: 2020-A-0225-S