Improper Neutralization of Escape, Meta, or Control Sequences vulnerability in Apache Tomcat. Tomcat did not escape ANSI escape sequences in log messages. If Tomcat was running in a console on a Windows operating system, and the console supported ANSI escape sequences, it was possible for an attacker to use a specially crafted URL to inject ANSI escape sequences to manipulate the console and the clipboard and attempt to trick an administrator into running an attacker controlled command. While no attack vector was found, it may have been possible to mount this attack on other operating systems. This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.10, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.44, from 9.0.40 through 9.0.108. The following versions were EOL at the time the CVE was created but are known to be affected: 8.5.60 though 8.5.100. Other, older, EOL versions may also be affected. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.11 or later, 10.1.45 or later or 9.0.109 or later, which fix the issue.

The remote openSUSE 16 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2026:20034-1 advisory.

    - Update to Tomcat 9.0.111
      - Security fixes:
        - CVE-2025-55752: directory traversal via rewrite with possible RCE if PUT is enabled (bsc#1252753).
        - CVE-2025-55754: improper neutralization of Escape, Meta, or Control Sequences vulnerability in     Apache Tomcat         (bsc#1252905).
        - CVE-2025-61795: temporary copies during the processing of multipart upload can lead to a denial of     service         (bsc#1252756).

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.

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2025-991028 advisory.

    Improper Neutralization of Escape, Meta, or Control Sequences vulnerability in Apache Tomcat.

    Tomcat did not escape ANSI escape sequences in log messages. If Tomcat was running in a console on a     Windows operating system, and the console supported ANSI escape sequences, it was possible for an attacker     to use a specially crafted URL to inject ANSI escape sequences to manipulate the console and the clipboard     and attempt to trick an administrator into running an attacker controlled command. While no attack vector     was found, it may have been possible to mount this attack on other operating systems.



    This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.10, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.44, from     9.0.40 through 9.0.108.

    The following versions were EOL at the time the CVE was created but are     known to be affected: 8.5.60 though 8.5.100. Other, older, EOL versions may also be affected.
    Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.11 or later, 10.1.45 or later or 9.0.109 or later, which     fix the issue.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Unity 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.

The remote openSUSE 16 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2025-20106-1 advisory.

    Update to Tomcat 11.0.13:

    - CVE-2025-55752: Fixed directory traversal via rewrite with possible RCE if PUT is enabled (bsc#1252753).
    - CVE-2025-55754: Fixed Improper Neutralization of Escape, Meta, or Control Sequences vulnerability in     Apache Tomcat (bsc#1252905).
    - CVE-2025-61795: Fixed temporary copies during the processing of multipart upload can lead to a denial of     service (bsc#1252756).

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.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:4184-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2025-55752: Fixed directory traversal via rewrite with possible RCE if PUT is enabled (bsc#1252753)
    - CVE-2025-55754: Fixed improper neutralization of escape, meta, or control sequences vulnerability     (bsc#1252905)
    - CVE-2025-61795: Fixed denial of service due to temporary copies during the processing of multipart     upload (bsc#1252756)

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.

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-2025:4159-1 advisory.

    Update to Tomcat 9.0.111:

      - CVE-2025-55752: Fixed directory traversal via rewrite with possible RCE if PUT           is enabled (bsc#1252753)
      - CVE-2025-55754: Fixed improper neutralization of escape, meta, or control           sequences vulnerability (bsc#1252905)
      - CVE-2025-61795: Fixed denial of service due to temporary copies during           the processing of multipart upload (bsc#1252756)

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.

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-2025:4103-1 advisory.

    Update to Tomcat 10.1.48

     - CVE-2025-55752: Fixed directory traversal via rewrite with possible RCE if PUT           is enabled (bsc#1252753)
      - CVE-2025-55754: Fixed improper neutralization of escape, meta, or control           sequences vulnerability (bsc#1252905)
      - CVE-2025-61795: Fixed denial of service due to temporary copies during           the processing of multipart upload (bsc#1252756)

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.

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-2025:4086-1 advisory.

    Update to Tomcat 11.0.13

     - CVE-2025-55752: Fixed directory traversal via rewrite with possible RCE if PUT           is enabled (bsc#1252753)
      - CVE-2025-55754: Fixed improper neutralization of escape, meta, or control           sequences vulnerability (bsc#1252905)
      - CVE-2025-61795: Fixed denial of service due to temporary copies during           the processing of multipart upload (bsc#1252756)

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.

The version of Apache Tomcat installed on the remote host is 9.0.0-M1 prior to 9.0.109, 10.1.0-M1 prior to 10.1.45 or 11.0.0-M1 prior to 11.0.11. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities :

 - Console manipulation via escape sequences in log messages. (CVE-2025-55754)

 - Directory traversal via Rewrite Valve with possible remote code execution if PUT is enabled. (CVE-2025-55752)

Note that the scanner has not attempted to exploit these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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

  - Improper Neutralization of Escape, Meta, or Control Sequences vulnerability in Apache Tomcat. Tomcat did     not escape ANSI escape sequences in log messages. If Tomcat was running in a console on a Windows     operating system, and the console supported ANSI escape sequences, it was possible for an attacker to use     a specially crafted URL to inject ANSI escape sequences to manipulate the console and the clipboard and     attempt to trick an administrator into running an attacker controlled command. While no attack vector was     found, it may have been possible to mount this attack on other operating systems. This issue affects     Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.10, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.44, from 9.0.40 through     9.0.108. The following versions were EOL at the time the CVE was created but are known to be affected:
    8.5.60 though 8.5.100. Other, older, EOL versions may also be affected. Users are recommended to upgrade     to version 11.0.11 or later, 10.1.45 or later or 9.0.109 or later, which fix the issue. (CVE-2025-55754)

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

The version of Tomcat installed on the remote host is prior to 9.0.109. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the fixed_in_apache_tomcat_9.0.109_security-9 advisory.

  - Improper Neutralization of Escape, Meta, or Control Sequences vulnerability in Apache Tomcat. Tomcat did     not escape ANSI escape sequences in log messages. If Tomcat was running in a console on a Windows     operating system, and the console supported ANSI escape sequences, it was possible for an attacker to use     a specially crafted URL to inject ANSI escape sequences to manipulate the console and the clipboard and     attempt to trick an administrator into running an attacker controlled command. While no attack vector was     found, it may have been possible to mount this attack on other operating systems. This issue affects     Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.10, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.44, from 9.0.40 through     9.0.108. The following versions were EOL at the time the CVE was created but are known to be affected:
    8.5.60 though 8.5.100. Other, older, EOL versions may also be affected. Users are recommended to upgrade     to version 11.0.11 or later, 10.1.45 or later or 9.0.109 or later, which fix the issue. (CVE-2025-55754)

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

The version of Tomcat installed on the remote host is prior to 11.0.11. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the fixed_in_apache_tomcat_11.0.11_security-11 advisory.

  - Relative Path Traversal vulnerability in Apache Tomcat. The fix for bug 60013 introduced a regression     where the rewritten URL was normalized before it was decoded. This introduced the possibility that, for     rewrite rules that rewrite query parameters to the URL, an attacker could manipulate the request URI to     bypass security constraints including the protection for /WEB-INF/ and /META-INF/. If PUT requests were     also enabled then malicious files could be uploaded leading to remote code execution. PUT requests are     normally limited to trusted users and it is considered unlikely that PUT requests would be enabled in     conjunction with a rewrite that manipulated the URI. This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1     through 11.0.10, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.44, from 9.0.0.M11 through 9.0.108. The following versions     were EOL at the time the CVE was created but are known to be affected: 8.5.6 though 8.5.100. Other, older,     EOL versions may also be affected. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.11 or later, 10.1.45     or later or 9.0.109 or later, which fix the issue. (CVE-2025-55752)

  - Improper Neutralization of Escape, Meta, or Control Sequences vulnerability in Apache Tomcat. Tomcat did     not escape ANSI escape sequences in log messages. If Tomcat was running in a console on a Windows     operating system, and the console supported ANSI escape sequences, it was possible for an attacker to use     a specially crafted URL to inject ANSI escape sequences to manipulate the console and the clipboard and     attempt to trick an administrator into running an attacker controlled command. While no attack vector was     found, it may have been possible to mount this attack on other operating systems. This issue affects     Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.10, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.44, from 9.0.40 through     9.0.108. The following versions were EOL at the time the CVE was created but are known to be affected:
    8.5.60 though 8.5.100. Other, older, EOL versions may also be affected. Users are recommended to upgrade     to version 11.0.11 or later, 10.1.45 or later or 9.0.109 or later, which fix the issue. (CVE-2025-55754)

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

The version of Tomcat installed on the remote host is prior to 10.1.45. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the fixed_in_apache_tomcat_10.1.45_security-10 advisory.

  - Relative Path Traversal vulnerability in Apache Tomcat. The fix for bug 60013 introduced a regression     where the rewritten URL was normalized before it was decoded. This introduced the possibility that, for     rewrite rules that rewrite query parameters to the URL, an attacker could manipulate the request URI to     bypass security constraints including the protection for /WEB-INF/ and /META-INF/. If PUT requests were     also enabled then malicious files could be uploaded leading to remote code execution. PUT requests are     normally limited to trusted users and it is considered unlikely that PUT requests would be enabled in     conjunction with a rewrite that manipulated the URI. This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1     through 11.0.10, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.44, from 9.0.0.M11 through 9.0.108. The following versions     were EOL at the time the CVE was created but are known to be affected: 8.5.6 though 8.5.100. Other, older,     EOL versions may also be affected. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.11 or later, 10.1.45     or later or 9.0.109 or later, which fix the issue. (CVE-2025-55752)

  - Improper Neutralization of Escape, Meta, or Control Sequences vulnerability in Apache Tomcat. Tomcat did     not escape ANSI escape sequences in log messages. If Tomcat was running in a console on a Windows     operating system, and the console supported ANSI escape sequences, it was possible for an attacker to use     a specially crafted URL to inject ANSI escape sequences to manipulate the console and the clipboard and     attempt to trick an administrator into running an attacker controlled command. While no attack vector was     found, it may have been possible to mount this attack on other operating systems. This issue affects     Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.10, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.44, from 9.0.40 through     9.0.108. The following versions were EOL at the time the CVE was created but are known to be affected:
    8.5.60 though 8.5.100. Other, older, EOL versions may also be affected. Users are recommended to upgrade     to version 11.0.11 or later, 10.1.45 or later or 9.0.109 or later, which fix the issue. (CVE-2025-55754)

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
287971	openSUSE 16 Security Update : tomcat (openSUSE-SU-2026:20034-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
277068	Unity Linux 20.1050e / 20.1060e / 20.1070e Security Update: tomcat (UTSA-2025-991028)	Nessus	Unity Linux Local Security Checks	low
277004	openSUSE 16 Security Update : tomcat11 (openSUSE-SU-2025-20106-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
276912	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : tomcat (SUSE-SU-2025:4184-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
276528	SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : tomcat (SUSE-SU-2025:4159-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
275491	SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : tomcat10 (SUSE-SU-2025:4103-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
275272	SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : tomcat11 (SUSE-SU-2025:4086-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
115026	Apache Tomcat 9.0.0-M1 < 9.0.109 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	high
115025	Apache Tomcat 10.1.0-M1 < 10.1.45 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	high
115024	Apache Tomcat 11.0.0-M1 < 11.0.11 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	high
271820	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-55754	Nessus	Misc.	critical
271806	Apache Tomcat 9.0.40 < 9.0.109 multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Web Servers	high
271693	Apache Tomcat 11.0.0.M1 < 11.0.11 multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Web Servers	high
271692	Apache Tomcat 10.1.0.M1 < 10.1.45 multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Web Servers	high

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