CVE-2019-12418 Affecting tomcat8-jsp-2.3-api package, versions <0:8.5.50-1.82.amzn1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-TOMCAT8JSP23API-1721652
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed23 Dec 2019

Introduced: 23 Dec 2019

CVE-2019-12418  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 tomcat8-jsp-2.3-api to version 0:8.5.50-1.82.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2020-1337.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tomcat8-jsp-2.3-api package and not the tomcat8-jsp-2.3-api package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2018.03 relevant fixed versions and status.

When Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.28, 8.5.0 to 8.5.47, 7.0.0 and 7.0.97 is configured with the JMX Remote Lifecycle Listener, a local attacker without access to the Tomcat process or configuration files is able to manipulate the RMI registry to perform a man-in-the-middle attack to capture user names and passwords used to access the JMX interface. The attacker can then use these credentials to access the JMX interface and gain complete control over the Tomcat instance.

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