Insecure permissions in the packaging of tomcat allow local users that win a race during package installation to escalate to root

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Insecure permissions in the packaging of tomcat allow local users that win a race during package     installation to escalate to root (CVE-2024-22029)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:0473-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2024-22029: Fixed escalation to root from tomcat user via %post script. (bsc#1219208)

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

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

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:0472-1 advisory.

    Updated to Tomcat 9.0.85:

    - CVE-2023-45648: Improve trailer header parsing (bsc#1216118).
    - CVE-2023-42794: FileUpload: remove tmp files to avoid DoS on Windows (bsc#1216120).
    - CVE-2023-42795: Improve handling of failures during recycle() methods (bsc#1216119).
    - CVE-2023-46589: Fixed HTTP request smuggling due to incorrect headers parsing (bsc#1217649)
    - CVE-2024-22029: Fixed escalation to root from tomcat user via %post script. (bsc#1219208)


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

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
297523	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-22029	Nessus	Misc.	high
190633	SUSE SLES15: tomcat10 / tomcat10-admin-webapps / tomcat10-docs-webapp / etc (SUSE-SU-2024:0473-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
190624	SUSE SLES15: tomcat / tomcat-admin-webapps / tomcat-docs-webapp / etc (SUSE-SU-2024:0472-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high

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CVE-2024-22029

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