ALAS2022-2022-044

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)

ALAS2022-2022-044


Amazon Linux 2022 Security Advisory: ALAS-2022-044
Advisory Release Date: 2022-04-18 23:26 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2022-04-22 15:12 Pacific
Severity: Medium
References: CVE-2022-23181 

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 dnf update --releasever=2022.0.20220419 tomcat to update your system.

New Packages:
noarch:
    tomcat-lib-9.0.59-1.amzn2022.noarch
    tomcat-servlet-4.0-api-9.0.59-1.amzn2022.noarch
    tomcat-docs-webapp-9.0.59-1.amzn2022.noarch
    tomcat-webapps-9.0.59-1.amzn2022.noarch
    tomcat-9.0.59-1.amzn2022.noarch
    tomcat-admin-webapps-9.0.59-1.amzn2022.noarch
    tomcat-el-3.0-api-9.0.59-1.amzn2022.noarch
    tomcat-jsp-2.3-api-9.0.59-1.amzn2022.noarch
    tomcat-jsvc-9.0.59-1.amzn2022.noarch

src:
    tomcat-9.0.59-1.amzn2022.src