Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Affecting tomcat-servlet-4.0-api package, versions <1:9.0.59-1.amzn2022


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2022-TOMCATSERVLET40API-2997465
  • published29 Aug 2022
  • disclosed27 Jan 2022

Introduced: 27 Jan 2022

CVE-2022-23181  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-367  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2022 tomcat-servlet-4.0-api to version 1:9.0.59-1.amzn2022 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2022-2022-044.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tomcat-servlet-4.0-api package and not the tomcat-servlet-4.0-api package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2022 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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