Deserialization of Untrusted Data Affecting tomcat8-jsp-2.3-api package, versions <0:8.0.36-24.ep7.el7


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
93.85% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-TOMCAT8JSP23API-3515593
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed20 Dec 2019

Introduced: 20 Dec 2019

CVE-2019-17571  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-502  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 tomcat8-jsp-2.3-api to version 0:8.0.36-24.ep7.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2017:1801.

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 RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Included in Log4j 1.2 is a SocketServer class that is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted data which can be exploited to remotely execute arbitrary code when combined with a deserialization gadget when listening to untrusted network traffic for log data. This affects Log4j versions up to 1.2 up to 1.2.17.

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