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Amazon Linux 2023 : tomcat9, tomcat9-admin-webapps, tomcat9-el-3.0-api (ALAS2023-2023-140)

high Nessus Plugin ID 173342

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2023 host is missing a security update.

Description

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-140 advisory.

 If Apache Tomcat 8.5.0 to 8.5.82, 9.0.0-M1 to 9.0.67, 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.26 or 10.1.0-M1 to 10.1.0 was configured to ignore invalid HTTP headers via setting rejectIllegalHeader to false (the default for 8.5.x only), Tomcat did not reject a request containing an invalid Content-Length header making a request smuggling attack possible if Tomcat was located behind a reverse proxy that also failed to reject the request with the invalid header. (CVE-2022-42252)

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

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

Solution

Run 'dnf update --releasever=2023.0.20230322 tomcat9' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2023/ALAS-2023-140.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-42252.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 173342

File Name: al2023_ALAS2023-2023-140.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/23/2023

Updated: 12/11/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-42252

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:tomcat9, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:tomcat9-docs-webapp, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:tomcat9-el-3.0-api, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:tomcat9-admin-webapps, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:tomcat9-jsp-2.3-api, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:tomcat9-servlet-4.0-api, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:tomcat9-webapps, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2023, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:tomcat9-lib

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/20/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/1/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-42252

IAVA: 2022-A-0457-S