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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 19.04 : Tomcat vulnerabilities (USN-4128-2)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 129048

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

It was discovered that the Tomcat 9 SSI printenv command echoed user provided data without escaping it. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform an XSS attack. (CVE-2019-0221)

It was discovered that Tomcat 9 did not address HTTP/2 connection window exhaustion on write while addressing CVE-2019-0199. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2019-10072).

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 libtomcat9-java and / or tomcat9 packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4128-2/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 129048

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4128-2.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/19/2019

Updated: 5/11/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-0221

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtomcat9-java, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat9, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.04

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: 9/18/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/10/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-0199, CVE-2019-0221, CVE-2019-10072

USN: 4128-2