RHEL 8 : tomcat (RHSA-2024:0125)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 187877

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for tomcat.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0125 advisory.

Apache Tomcat is a servlet container for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP) technologies.

Security Fix(es):

* tomcat: Open Redirect vulnerability in FORM authentication (CVE-2023-41080)

* tomcat: FileUpload: DoS due to accumulation of temporary files on Windows (CVE-2023-42794)

* tomcat: improper cleaning of recycled objects could lead to information leak (CVE-2023-42795)

* tomcat: incorrectly parsed http trailer headers can cause request smuggling (CVE-2023-45648)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the RHEL tomcat package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:0125.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 187877

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-0125.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 1/10/2024

Updated: 6/3/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-41080

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat-lib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat-el-3.0-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat-servlet-4.0-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat-admin-webapps, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat-webapps, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat-docs-webapp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat-jsp-2.3-api, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/10/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/25/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-41080, CVE-2023-42794, CVE-2023-42795, CVE-2023-45648

CWE: 20, 459, 601

IAVA: 2023-A-0443-S, 2023-A-0534-S

RHSA: 2024:0125

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