Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Affecting tomcat-lib package, versions <9.0.36-3.90.1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-TOMCATLIB-2641552
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed3 Mar 2022

Introduced: 3 Mar 2022

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

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 tomcat-lib to version 9.0.36-3.90.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tomcat-lib package and not the tomcat-lib package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 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