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SUSE SLES15: tomcat10 / tomcat10-admin-webapps / tomcat10-docs-webapp / etc (SUSE-SU-2024:0208-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 189494

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:0208-1 advisory.

 Updated to Tomcat 10.1.18

 - CVE-2023-46589: Fixed HTTP request smuggling due to incorrect headers parsing (bsc#1217649)

 Find the full release notes at:

 https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-9.0-doc/changelog.html

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

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://bugzilla.suse.com/1217649

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-46589

http://www.nessus.org/u?052b1102

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 189494

File Name: suse_SU-2024-0208-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/25/2024

Updated: 6/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, tenable_cloud_security, tenable_self_hosted_container_security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-46589

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/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: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat10-el-5_0-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat10, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat10-webapps, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat10-admin-webapps, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat10-servlet-6_0-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat10-jsp-3_1-api, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat10-lib

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/24/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/15/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-46589

IAVA: 2023-A-0661-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:0208-1