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SCA: security update for org.apache.tomcat:tomcat (GHSA-w227-xcfx-3pj8)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 419618

Description

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

 - Apache Tomcat 4.1.0 through 4.1.39, 5.5.0 through 5.5.27, and 6.0.0 through 6.0.18, when FORM
 authentication is used, allows remote attackers to enumerate valid usernames via requests to
 /j_security_check with malformed URL encoding of passwords, related to improper error checking in the (1)
 MemoryRealm, (2) DataSourceRealm, and (3) JDBCRealm authentication realms, as demonstrated by a %
 (percent) value for the j_password parameter. (CVE-2009-0580)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w227-xcfx-3pj8

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 419618

Version: Revision 1.4

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: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 95.09

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2009-0580

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/2/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/3/2009

Exploitable With

CANVAS (D2ExploitPack)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0580

BID: 35196

cwe: CWE-200