GLSA-202305-37 : Apache Tomcat: Multiple Vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 176471

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202305-37 (Apache Tomcat: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

- 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)

- The JsonErrorReportValve in Apache Tomcat 8.5.83, 9.0.40 to 9.0.68 and 10.1.0-M1 to 10.1.1 did not escape the type, message or description values. In some circumstances these are constructed from user provided data and it was therefore possible for users to supply values that invalidated or manipulated the JSON output. (CVE-2022-45143)

- Apache Commons FileUpload before 1.5 does not limit the number of request parts to be processed resulting in the possibility of an attacker triggering a DoS with a malicious upload or series of uploads. Note that, like all of the file upload limits, the new configuration option (FileUploadBase#setFileCountMax) is not enabled by default and must be explicitly configured. (CVE-2023-24998)

- The fix for CVE-2023-24998 was incomplete for Apache Tomcat 11.0.0-M2 to 11.0.0-M4, 10.1.5 to 10.1.7, 9.0.71 to 9.0.73 and 8.5.85 to 8.5.87. If non-default HTTP connector settings were used such that the maxParameterCount could be reached using query string parameters and a request was submitted that supplied exactly maxParameterCount parameters in the query string, the limit for uploaded request parts could be bypassed with the potential for a denial of service to occur. (CVE-2023-28709)

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

Solution

All Apache Tomcat users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=www-servers/tomcat-10.1.8

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-37

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=878911

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=889596

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=896370

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=907387

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 176471

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202305-37.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 5/30/2023

Updated: 5/31/2023

Supported Sensors: 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-2022-45143

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: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:tomcat

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/30/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/7/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-42252, CVE-2022-45143, CVE-2023-24998, CVE-2023-28709