Insufficiently Protected Credentials Affecting tomcat9 package, versions <9.0.31-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.05% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN13-TOMCAT9-5698007
  • published 21 Dec 2019
  • disclosed 23 Dec 2019

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 tomcat9 to version 9.0.31-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tomcat9 package and not the tomcat9 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 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.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

Recommended
7 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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SUSE

7.1 high
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Red Hat

7.4 high