ALASTOMCAT8.5-2023-002

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-42252  

If Apache Tomcat 8.5.0 to 8.5.82, 9.0.0-M1 to 9.0.67, 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.26 or 10.1.0-M1 to 10.1.0 was configured to ignore invalid HTTP headers via setting rejectIllegalHeader to false (the default for 8.5.x only), Tomcat did not reject a request containing an invalid Content-Length header making a request smuggling attack possible if Tomcat was located behind a reverse proxy that also failed to reject the request with the invalid header. (CVE-2022-42252)

ALASTOMCAT8.5-2023-002


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALASTOMCAT8.5-2023-002
Advisory Release Date: 2023-08-21 20:58 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-09-25 21:59 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

If Apache Tomcat 8.5.0 to 8.5.82, 9.0.0-M1 to 9.0.67, 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.26 or 10.1.0-M1 to 10.1.0 was configured to ignore invalid HTTP headers via setting rejectIllegalHeader to false (the default for 8.5.x only), Tomcat did not reject a request containing an invalid Content-Length header making a request smuggling attack possible if Tomcat was located behind a reverse proxy that also failed to reject the request with the invalid header. (CVE-2022-42252)


Affected Packages:

tomcat


Issue Correction:
Run yum update tomcat to update your system.

New Packages:
noarch:
    tomcat-8.5.79-1.amzn2.0.3.noarch
    tomcat-admin-webapps-8.5.79-1.amzn2.0.3.noarch
    tomcat-docs-webapp-8.5.79-1.amzn2.0.3.noarch
    tomcat-javadoc-8.5.79-1.amzn2.0.3.noarch
    tomcat-jsvc-8.5.79-1.amzn2.0.3.noarch
    tomcat-jsp-2.3-api-8.5.79-1.amzn2.0.3.noarch
    tomcat-lib-8.5.79-1.amzn2.0.3.noarch
    tomcat-servlet-3.1-api-8.5.79-1.amzn2.0.3.noarch
    tomcat-el-3.0-api-8.5.79-1.amzn2.0.3.noarch
    tomcat-webapps-8.5.79-1.amzn2.0.3.noarch

src:
    tomcat-8.5.79-1.amzn2.0.3.src