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RHEL 8 : tomcat (RHSA-2024:3814)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 200414
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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-2024:3814 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-34811)
* Amend tomcat package's changelog so that fixed CVEs are mentioned explicitly (JIRA:RHEL-37865)
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-2024:3814.See Also
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2269607
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2269608
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 200414
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-3814.nasl
Version: 1.5
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 6/12/2024
Updated: 11/19/2024
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, 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: 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, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.8, 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, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat-servlet-4.0-api
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: 6/11/2024
Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/19/2024
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2024-23672, CVE-2024-24549