Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Affecting tomcat-admin-webapps package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on CentOS security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (10th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-TOMCATADMINWEBAPPS-2387348
  • published 28 Jan 2022
  • disclosed 26 Jan 2022

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:7 tomcat-admin-webapps.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tomcat-admin-webapps package and not the tomcat-admin-webapps package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 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

version 3.1
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NVD

7 high
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SUSE

7 high
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Red Hat

7 high