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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-52316

critical Nessus Plugin ID 247229

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

 - Unchecked Error Condition vulnerability in Apache Tomcat. If Tomcat is configured to use a custom Jakarta Authentication (formerly JASPIC) ServerAuthContext component which may throw an exception during the authentication process without explicitly setting an HTTP status to indicate failure, the authentication may not fail, allowing the user to bypass the authentication process. There are no known Jakarta Authentication components that behave in this way. This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.0-M26, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.30, from 9.0.0-M1 through 9.0.95. The following versions were EOL at the time the CVE was created but are known to be affected: 8.5.0 though 8.5.100. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 11.0.0, 10.1.31 or 9.0.96, which fix the issue. (CVE-2024-52316)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2024-52316

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-52316

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 247229

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2024_52316.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 8/10/2025

Updated: 9/14/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-52316

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:tomcat-lib, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:tomcat, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pki-servlet-4.0-api, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:tomcat-webapps, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:tomcat-jsp-2.3-api, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:tomcat-admin-webapps, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat-lib, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:tomcat-docs-webapp, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:tomcat-el-3.0-api, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat-webapps, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat-el-3.0-api, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat-servlet-4.0-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat-jsp-2.3-api, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat9, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat10, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat-admin-webapps, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:pki-servlet-engine, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:tomcat-servlet-4.0-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tomcat-docs-webapp, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:pki-servlet-4.0-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pki-servlet-engine

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/9/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-52316