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Fedora 31 : 1:tomcat (2020-ce396e7d5c)

high Nessus Plugin ID 137736

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update includes a rebase from 9.0.34 up to 9.0.36 which resolves one CVE along with various other bugs/features :

 - rhbz#1838964 CVE-2020-9484 tomcat: Apache Tomcat Remote Code Execution via session persistence [fedora-all]

 - rhbz#1844885 tomcat-9.0.36 is available

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
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Solution

Update the affected 1:tomcat package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-ce396e7d5c

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 137736

File Name: fedora_2020-ce396e7d5c.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/23/2020

Updated: 3/6/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, 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:fedoraproject:fedora:1:tomcat, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:31

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/23/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/20/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-9484