Deserialization of Untrusted Data Affecting tomcat-native package, versions <0:1.2.8-10.redhat_10.ep7.el7


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
69.06% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-TOMCATNATIVE-3515644
  • 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 tomcat-native to version 0:1.2.8-10.redhat_10.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 tomcat-native package and not the tomcat-native 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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CVSS Base Scores

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