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RHEL 8 : tomcat (RHSA-2025:3684)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 234267

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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-2025:3684 advisory.

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

 Security Fix(es):

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

 * tomcat: Potential RCE and/or information disclosure and/or information corruption with partial PUT (CVE-2025-24813)

 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-2025:3684.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2332817

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2351129

http://www.nessus.org/u?04afc93d

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:3684

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 234267

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-3684.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/13/2025

Updated: 4/13/2025

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: 9.5

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-24813

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

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: 4/8/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/9/2024

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 4/22/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-50379, CVE-2025-24813

CWE: 367, 502

RHSA: 2025:3684