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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Tomcat vulnerability (USN-6880-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 201949

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6880-1 advisory.

 Sam Shahsavar discovered that Apache Tomcat did not properly reject

 HTTP requests with an invalid Content-Length header. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform HTTP request smuggling attacks.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6880-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 201949

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6880-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/8/2024

Updated: 8/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, 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-2022-42252

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:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat8-user, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat9-user, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat8-admin, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat8-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat9-admin, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat9-examples, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtomcat8-java, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat9, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat8-examples, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtomcat8-embed-java, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtomcat9-java, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtomcat9-embed-java, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat9-common

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/5/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/7/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-42252

IAVA: 2022-A-0457-S

USN: 6880-1