RHEL 6 : tomcat6 (RHSA-2020:0912)

High Nessus Plugin ID 143082

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VPR Score: 9.7

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:0912 advisory.

 - tomcat: Apache Tomcat AJP File Read/Inclusion Vulnerability (CVE-2020-1938)

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://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/285.html

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1938

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0912

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1806398

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 143082

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-0912.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2020/11/19

Updated: 2020/11/24

Dependencies: 12634

Risk Information

Risk Factor: High

VPR Score: 9.7

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-1938

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3.0

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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:6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6::client, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6::server, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat6-admin-webapps, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat6-docs-webapp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat6-el-2.1-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat6-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat6-jsp-2.1-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat6-lib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat6-servlet-2.5-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat6-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: 2020/03/23

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2020/02/24

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-1938

RHSA: 2020:0912

CWE: 285