ALAS-2021-1472

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-1935  

A flaw was found in Apache Tomcat. The HTTP header parsing code used an approach to end-of-line (EOL) parsing that allowed some invalid HTTP headers to be parsed as valid. This led to the possibility of HTTP Request Smuggling if Tomcat was located behind a reverse proxy that incorrectly handled the invalid Transfer-Encoding header in a particular manner. The highest threat with this vulnerability is system availability. (CVE-2020-1935)

ALAS-2021-1472


Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2021-1472
Advisory Release Date: 2021-01-12 22:52 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2021-01-13 18:28 Pacific
Severity: Low
References: CVE-2020-1935 

Issue Overview:

A flaw was found in Apache Tomcat. The HTTP header parsing code used an approach to end-of-line (EOL) parsing that allowed some invalid HTTP headers to be parsed as valid. This led to the possibility of HTTP Request Smuggling if Tomcat was located behind a reverse proxy that incorrectly handled the invalid Transfer-Encoding header in a particular manner. The highest threat with this vulnerability is system availability. (CVE-2020-1935)


Affected Packages:

tomcat7


Issue Correction:
Run yum update tomcat7 to update your system.

New Packages:
noarch:
    tomcat7-javadoc-7.0.107-1.39.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat7-admin-webapps-7.0.107-1.39.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat7-log4j-7.0.107-1.39.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat7-lib-7.0.107-1.39.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat7-el-2.2-api-7.0.107-1.39.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat7-webapps-7.0.107-1.39.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat7-servlet-3.0-api-7.0.107-1.39.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat7-jsp-2.2-api-7.0.107-1.39.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat7-docs-webapp-7.0.107-1.39.amzn1.noarch
    tomcat7-7.0.107-1.39.amzn1.noarch

src:
    tomcat7-7.0.107-1.39.amzn1.src