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RHEL 5 : tomcat5 (RHSA-2011:1845)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 57356

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for tomcat5.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2011:1845 advisory.

 - tomcat: file permission bypass flaw (CVE-2010-3718)

 - tomcat: XSS vulnerability in HTML Manager interface (CVE-2011-0013)

 - tomcat: Multiple weaknesses in HTTP DIGEST authentication (CVE-2011-1184, CVE-2011-5062, CVE-2011-5063, CVE-2011-5064)

 - tomcat: password disclosure vulnerability (CVE-2011-2204)

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

Solution

Update the RHEL tomcat5 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2011:1845.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675786

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675792

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=717013

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=741401

http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html

http://www.nessus.org/u?7b3bcf2c

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011:1845

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 57356

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2011-1845.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/21/2011

Updated: 4/21/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-5062

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-admin-webapps, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-common-lib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-jasper, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-jasper-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-server-lib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat5-webapps, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/20/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/10/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-3718, CVE-2011-0013, CVE-2011-1184, CVE-2011-2204, CVE-2011-5062, CVE-2011-5063, CVE-2011-5064

BID: 46174, 46177, 48456, 49762

CWE: 79

RHSA: 2011:1845