ALASTOMCAT8.5-2023-004

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-23181  

The fix for bug CVE-2020-9484 introduced a time of check, time of use vulnerability into Apache Tomcat 10.1.0-M1 to 10.1.0-M8, 10.0.0-M5 to 10.0.14, 9.0.35 to 9.0.56 and 8.5.55 to 8.5.73 that allowed a local attacker to perform actions with the privileges of the user that the Tomcat process is using. This issue is only exploitable when Tomcat is configured to persist sessions using the FileStore. (CVE-2022-23181)

ALASTOMCAT8.5-2023-004


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALASTOMCAT8.5-2023-004
Advisory Release Date: 2023-08-21 20:58 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-09-25 21:59 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

The fix for bug CVE-2020-9484 introduced a time of check, time of use vulnerability into Apache Tomcat 10.1.0-M1 to 10.1.0-M8, 10.0.0-M5 to 10.0.14, 9.0.35 to 9.0.56 and 8.5.55 to 8.5.73 that allowed a local attacker to perform actions with the privileges of the user that the Tomcat process is using. This issue is only exploitable when Tomcat is configured to persist sessions using the FileStore. (CVE-2022-23181)


Affected Packages:

tomcat


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

New Packages:
noarch:
    tomcat-8.5.75-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch
    tomcat-admin-webapps-8.5.75-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch
    tomcat-docs-webapp-8.5.75-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch
    tomcat-javadoc-8.5.75-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch
    tomcat-jsvc-8.5.75-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch
    tomcat-jsp-2.3-api-8.5.75-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch
    tomcat-lib-8.5.75-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch
    tomcat-servlet-3.1-api-8.5.75-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch
    tomcat-el-3.0-api-8.5.75-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch
    tomcat-webapps-8.5.75-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch

src:
    tomcat-8.5.75-1.amzn2.0.1.src