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SCA: security update for org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core (GHSA-2rvv-w9r2-rg7m)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 409091

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - When serving resources from a network location using the NTFS file system, Apache Tomcat versions
 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.0-M9, 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.39, 8.5.0 to 8.5.59 and 7.0.0 to 7.0.106 were susceptible to JSP
 source code disclosure in some configurations. The root cause was the unexpected behaviour of the JRE API
 File.getCanonicalPath() which in turn was caused by the inconsistent behaviour of the Windows API
 (FindFirstFileW) in some circumstances. (CVE-2021-24122)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2rvv-w9r2-rg7m

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 409091

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 8/12/2025

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.52

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-24122

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/17/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-24122