The version of tomcat8 installed on the remote host is prior to 8.5.75-1.90. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS-2022-1572 advisory.

  - When using Apache Tomcat versions 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.0-M4, 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.34, 8.5.0 to 8.5.54 and 7.0.0 to     7.0.103 if a) an attacker is able to control the contents and name of a file on the server; and b) the     server is configured to use the PersistenceManager with a FileStore; and c) the PersistenceManager is     configured with sessionAttributeValueClassNameFilter=null (the default unless a SecurityManager is used)     or a sufficiently lax filter to allow the attacker provided object to be deserialized; and d) the attacker     knows the relative file path from the storage location used by FileStore to the file the attacker has     control over; then, using a specifically crafted request, the attacker will be able to trigger remote code     execution via deserialization of the file under their control. Note that all of conditions a) to d) must     be true for the attack to succeed. (CVE-2020-9484)

  - The fix for bug CVE-2020-9484 introduced a time of check, time of use vulnerability into Apache Tomcat     10.1.0-M1 to 10.1.0-M8, 10.0.0-M5 to 10.0.14, 9.0.35 to 9.0.56 and 8.5.55 to 8.5.73 that allowed a local     attacker to perform actions with the privileges of the user that the Tomcat process is using. This issue     is only exploitable when Tomcat is configured to persist sessions using the FileStore. (CVE-2022-23181)

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

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Amazon Linux AMI : tomcat8 (ALAS-2022-1572)

high Nessus Plugin ID 158696

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