RHEL 9 : pki-servlet-engine (RHSA-2025:1920)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 216907

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for pki-servlet-engine.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:1920 advisory.

Tomcat is the servlet engine that is used in the official Reference Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies. The Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages specifications are developed by Sun under the Java Community Process. Tomcat is developed in an open and participatory environment and released under the Apache Software License version 2.0. Tomcat is intended to be a collaboration of the best-of-breed developers from around the world.

Security Fix(es):

* tomcat: RCE due to TOCTOU issue in JSP compilation (CVE-2024-50379)

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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL pki-servlet-engine package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:1920.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 216907

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-1920.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 2/27/2025

Updated: 2/27/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-50379

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pki-servlet-engine, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pki-servlet-4.0-api, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.2

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: 2/27/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/9/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-50379

CWE: 367

RHSA: 2025:1920

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