SCA: security update for org.apache.tomcat:tomcat (GHSA-jx7c-7mj5-9438)

low Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 416626

Description

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

- The simplified implementation of blocking reads and writes introduced in Tomcat 10 and back-ported to
Tomcat 9.0.47 onwards exposed a long standing (but extremely hard to trigger) concurrency bug in Apache
Tomcat 10.1.0 to 10.1.0-M12, 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.18, 9.0.0-M1 to 9.0.60 and 8.5.0 to 8.5.77 that could cause
client connections to share an Http11Processor instance resulting in responses, or part responses, to be
received by the wrong client. (CVE-2021-43980)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jx7c-7mj5-9438

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 416626

Version: Revision 1.15

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: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 1.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-43980

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.7

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/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: 9/29/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/1/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-43980

cwe: CWE-362