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Oracle Linux 9 : tomcat (ELSA-2024-0474)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 189515

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-0474 advisory.

 - Resolves: #2235370 CVE-2023-41080 tomcat: Open Redirect vulnerability in FORM authentication
 - Resolves: #2243749 CVE-2023-45648 tomcat: incorrectly parsed http trailer headers can cause request smuggling
 - Resolves: #2243751 CVE-2023-42794 tomcat: FileUpload: DoS due to accumulation of temporary files on Windows

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle 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 affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2024-0474.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 189515

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2024-0474.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/25/2024

Updated: 11/2/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, 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:oracle:linux:tomcat-webapps, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:tomcat-lib, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:tomcat-docs-webapp, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:tomcat-el-3.0-api, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:tomcat, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:tomcat-admin-webapps, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:tomcat-servlet-4.0-api, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:tomcat-jsp-2.3-api, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9::appstream, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/25/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/25/2023

Reference Information

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

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