Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title Tomcat vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-3787-1 First vendor Publication 2018-10-10
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2018-10-10
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

Tomcat could be made to redirect to arbitrary locations.

Software Description: - tomcat8: Servlet and JSP engine - tomcat7: Servlet and JSP engine

Details:

It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly handled returning redirects to a directory. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue with a specially crafted URL to redirect to arbitrary URIs.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
libtomcat8-java 8.0.32-1ubuntu1.8
tomcat8 8.0.32-1ubuntu1.8

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
libtomcat7-java 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.16
tomcat7 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.16

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3787-1
CVE-2018-11784

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tomcat8/8.0.32-1ubuntu1.8
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tomcat7/7.0.52-1ubuntu0.16

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3787-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-601 URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect') (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 467
Application 1
Application 2
Application 2
Application 3
Application 3
Application 1
Os 2
Os 1
Os 1
Os 2
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-11-08 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2018-1099.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-10-16 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1545.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-10-15 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1544.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2019-01-08 17:21:07
  • Multiple Updates
2018-10-10 21:19:04
  • First insertion