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SCA: security update for org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core, org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote (GHSA-p22x-g9px-3945)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 417204

Description

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

 - If Apache Tomcat 8.5.0 to 8.5.82, 9.0.0-M1 to 9.0.67, 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.26 or 10.1.0-M1 to 10.1.0 was
 configured to ignore invalid HTTP headers via setting rejectIllegalHeader to false (the default for 8.5.x
 only), Tomcat did not reject a request containing an invalid Content-Length header making a request
 smuggling attack possible if Tomcat was located behind a reverse proxy that also failed to reject the
 request with the invalid header. (CVE-2022-42252)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p22x-g9px-3945

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 417204

Version: Revision 1.20

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-42252

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/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: 11/1/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/11/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-42252