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Amazon Linux AMI : tomcat-native (ALAS-2018-965)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 107236

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.

Description

Mishandling of client certificates can allow for OCSP check bypass :

When parsing the AIA-Extension field of a client certificate, Apache Tomcat Native Connector 1.2.0 to 1.2.14 and 1.1.23 to 1.1.34 did not correctly handle fields longer than 127 bytes. The result of the parsing error was to skip the OCSP check. It was therefore possible for client certificates that should have been rejected (if the OCSP check had been made) to be accepted. Users not using OCSP checks are not affected by this vulnerability. (CVE-2017-15698)

Solution

Run 'yum update tomcat-native' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2018-965.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 107236

File Name: ala_ALAS-2018-965.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/9/2018

Updated: 10/24/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-15698

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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

CPE: cpe:/o:amazon:linux, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:tomcat-native, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:tomcat-native-debuginfo

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/7/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-15698

ALAS: 2018-965