RHEL 7 : tomcat (RHSA-2020:2530)

high Nessus Plugin ID 137360

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:2530 advisory.

- tomcat: deserialization flaw in session persistence storage leading to RCE (CVE-2020-9484)

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-9484

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2530

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1838332

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 137360

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-2530.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/11/2020

Updated: 5/25/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-9484

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat-admin-webapps, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat-docs-webapp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat-el-2.2-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat-jsp-2.2-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat-jsvc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat-lib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat-servlet-3.0-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat-webapps

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/11/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/20/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-9484

CWE: 502

IAVA: 2020-A-0225-S, 2020-A-0324

RHSA: 2020:2530