RHEL 6 : tomcat6 (RHSA-2011:0791)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 54601

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for tomcat6.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2011:0791 advisory.

- tomcat: file permission bypass flaw (CVE-2010-3718)

- tomcat: cross-site-scripting vulnerability in the manager application (CVE-2010-4172)

- tomcat: XSS vulnerability in HTML Manager interface (CVE-2011-0013)

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 tomcat6 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2011:0791.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=636997

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643809

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656246

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661244

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675786

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675792

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678671

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695284

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697504

http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html

http://www.nessus.org/u?4fbfb193

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011:0791

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 54601

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2011-0791.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/20/2011

Updated: 4/27/2024

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: 2.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-0013

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat6-el-2.1-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat6-webapps, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat6-jsp-2.1-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat6-docs-webapp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat6-servlet-2.5-api, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat6-admin-webapps, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat6-lib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat6-javadoc

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: 5/19/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/26/2010

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-3718, CVE-2010-4172, CVE-2011-0013

BID: 45015, 46174, 46177

CWE: 79

RHSA: 2011:0791