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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Tomcat vulnerability (USN-3081-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 93600

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

Dawid Golunski discovered that the Tomcat init script incorrectly handled creating log files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain root privileges. (CVE-2016-1240)

This update also reverts a change in behaviour introduced in USN-3024-1 by setting mapperContextRootRedirectEnabled to True by default.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3081-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 93600

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3081-1.nasl

Version: 2.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/20/2016

Updated: 10/23/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-1240

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtomcat7-java, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtomcat8-java, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat7, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat7-admin, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat7-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat7-examples, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat7-user, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat8-admin, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat8-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat8-examples, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat8-user, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libservlet3.0-java, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libservlet3.1-java

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/19/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/3/2016

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Apache Tomcat on Ubuntu Log Init Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-1240

USN: 3081-1