Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Affecting pki-servlet-engine package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-PKISERVLETENGINE-2884902
  • published28 Jan 2022
  • disclosed26 Jan 2022

Introduced: 26 Jan 2022

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

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:9 pki-servlet-engine.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pki-servlet-engine package and not the pki-servlet-engine package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 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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