RHEL 8 : tomcat (RHSA-2024:3666)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 200148

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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-2024:3666 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* Apache Tomcat: HTTP/2 header handling DoS (CVE-2024-24549)

* Apache Tomcat: WebSocket DoS with incomplete closing handshake (CVE-2024-23672)

Bug Fix(es):

* Rebase tomcat to version 9.0.87 (JIRA:RHEL-35813)

* Amend tomcat package's changelog so that fixed CVEs are mentioned explicitly (JIRA:RHEL-38548)

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-2024:3666.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 200148

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-3666.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 6/6/2024

Updated: 11/19/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-24549

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-23672

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.10, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat-webapps, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, 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-lib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat-jsp-2.3-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat-admin-webapps, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat-docs-webapp

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/6/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/19/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-23672, CVE-2024-24549

CWE: 20, 459

RHSA: 2024:3666

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