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Ubuntu 8.10 / 9.04 : tomcat6 vulnerabilities (USN-788-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 39419
Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.Description
Iida Minehiko discovered that Tomcat did not properly normalise paths.A remote attacker could send specially crafted requests to the server and bypass security restrictions, gaining access to sensitive content.
(CVE-2008-5515)
Yoshihito Fukuyama discovered that Tomcat did not properly handle errors when the Java AJP connector and mod_jk load balancing are used.
A remote attacker could send specially crafted requests containing invalid headers to the server and cause a temporary denial of service.
(CVE-2009-0033)
D. Matscheko and T. Hackner discovered that Tomcat did not properly handle malformed URL encoding of passwords when FORM authentication is used. A remote attacker could exploit this in order to enumerate valid usernames. (CVE-2009-0580)
Deniz Cevik discovered that Tomcat did not properly escape certain parameters in the example calendar application which could result in browsers becoming vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks when processing the output. With cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, if a user were tricked into viewing server output during a crafted server request, a remote attacker could exploit this to modify the contents, or steal confidential data (such as passwords), within the same domain. (CVE-2009-0781)
Philippe Prados discovered that Tomcat allowed web applications to replace the XML parser used by other web applications. Local users could exploit this to bypass security restrictions and gain access to certain sensitive files. (CVE-2009-0783).
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 39419
File Name: ubuntu_USN-788-1.nasl
Version: 1.18
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 6/16/2009
Updated: 1/19/2021
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: 6.2
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5
Temporal Score: 4.1
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.2
Temporal Score: 3.9
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat6-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtomcat6-java, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat6-admin, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libservlet2.5-java, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat6-docs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat6-user, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat6-examples, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libservlet2.5-java-doc
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 6/15/2009
Exploitable With
CANVAS (D2ExploitPack)
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2008-5515, CVE-2009-0033, CVE-2009-0580, CVE-2009-0781, CVE-2009-0783