SUSE SLES15: tomcat / tomcat-admin-webapps / tomcat-docs-webapp / etc (SUSE-SU-2024:0472-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 190624

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:0472-1 advisory.

Updated to Tomcat 9.0.85:

- CVE-2023-45648: Improve trailer header parsing (bsc#1216118).
- CVE-2023-42794: FileUpload: remove tmp files to avoid DoS on Windows (bsc#1216120).
- CVE-2023-42795: Improve handling of failures during recycle() methods (bsc#1216119).
- CVE-2023-46589: Fixed HTTP request smuggling due to incorrect headers parsing (bsc#1217649)
- CVE-2024-22029: Fixed escalation to root from tomcat user via %post script. (bsc#1219208)

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

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 190624

File Name: suse_SU-2024-0472-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 2/17/2024

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: Medium

Score: 5.9

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:tomcat-jsp-2_3-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-servlet-4_0-api, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-el-3_0-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-webapps, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-lib, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-admin-webapps

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: 2/14/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/10/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-42794, CVE-2023-42795, CVE-2023-45648, CVE-2023-46589, CVE-2024-22029

IAVA: 2023-A-0534-S, 2023-A-0661-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:0472-1

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