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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS / 25.04 : Tomcat vulnerabilities (USN-7705-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 253066

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS / 25.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7705-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Tomcat did not correctly handle case sensitivity. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass authentication mechanisms. (CVE-2025-46701)

 Elysee Franchuk discovered that Tomcat did not correctly limit the number of attributes for a session. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-54677)

 It was discovered that Tomcat did not correctly sanitize certain URLs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass authentication mechanisms. (CVE-2025-31651)

 It was discovered that Tomcat did not correctly handle certain malformed HTTP headers, which could lead to a memory leak. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2025-31650)

 It was discovered that Tomcat did not correctly handle concurrent operations under certain circumstances.
 An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-50379)

 It was discovered that Tomcat did not correctly handle certain authentication errors. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass authentication mechanisms. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
 (CVE-2024-52316)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7705-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 253066

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7705-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/20/2025

Updated: 8/20/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-31651

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 7.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-31650

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat10-examples, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat10-user, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtomcat10-embed-java, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libtomcat10-java, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat10-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:tomcat10-admin

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/20/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/9/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-50379, CVE-2024-52317, CVE-2024-54677, CVE-2025-31650, CVE-2025-31651, CVE-2025-46701

IAVA: 2024-A-0754-S, 2024-A-0822-S, 2025-A-0313-S, 2025-A-0389-S

USN: 7705-1