SB2024091645 - HP-UX update for Tomcat
Published: September 16, 2024 Updated: December 13, 2024
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 25 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-34981)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to HTTP headers are not set in a response. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and gain unauthorized access to sensitive information on the system.
2) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-12616)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information on the target system.The weakness exists in the systems and resources using the VirtualDirContext due to input validation flaw. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request to bypass security constraints and view JSP source code for resources on the target system served by the VirtualDirContext.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in information disclosure.
3) Improper input validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-12617)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.The weakness exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when running with HTTP PUTs enabled. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request to upload a JSP file to the server and execute arbitrary code on the system.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in full system compromise.
4) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-24549)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when handling HTTP/2 requests. A remote attacker can send specially crafted HTTP/2 requests to the server and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
5) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-23672)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote attacker can keep WebSocket connections open for a long time to trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
6) Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-46589)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform HTTP request smuggling attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of HTTP requests when parsing malformed trailer headers. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to the server and smuggle arbitrary HTTP headers.
Successful exploitation of vulnerability may allow an attacker to poison HTTP cache and perform phishing attacks.
7) Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-45648)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform HTTP request smuggling attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to improper validation when parsing HTTP trailer headers. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to the server and smuggle arbitrary HTTP headers.
Successful exploitation of vulnerability may allow an attacker to poison HTTP cache and perform phishing attacks.
8) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-44487)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improperly control of consumption for internal resources when handling HTTP/2 requests with compressed HEADERS frames. A remote attacker can send a sequence of compressed HEADERS frames followed by RST_STREAM frames and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack, a.k.a. "Rapid Reset".
Note, the vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild.
9) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-42795)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources within the application when recycling various internal objects. A remote attacker can force Tomcat to skip some parts of the recycling process leading to information leaking from the current request/response to the next.
10) Exposed dangerous method or function (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-42794)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to Tomcat's internal fork of a Commons FileUpload included an unreleased, in progress refactoring that exposed a potential denial of service on Windows. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service attack by uploading multiple files to the server that are not removed.
11) Open redirect (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-41080)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to redirect victims to arbitrary URL.
The vulnerability exists due to improper sanitization of user-supplied data, if the ROOT (default) web application is configured to use FORM authentication. A remote attacker can create a link that leads to a trusted website, however, when clicked, redirects the victim to arbitrary domain.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to perform a phishing attack and steal potentially sensitive information.
12) Sensitive cookie in HTTPS session without Secure attribute (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-28708)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to Apache Tomcat does not set the "Secure" attribute for the JSESSIONID session cookie when using the RemoteIpFilter with requests received from a reverse proxy via HTTP that include the X-Forwarded-Proto header set to https. A remote attacker can force the application to transmit cookie via an insecure channel and intercept it.
13) Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-30639)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper error management within the application when handling unexpected connection termination. A remote attacker can drop connection with the Apache Tomcat server, which triggers a non-blocking I/O error and causes all requests, handled by that request object, to fail. As a result, a remote attacker can initiate and drop connections to the server and perform a denial of service attack.14) Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-28709)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an incomplete fox for #VU72427 (CVE-2023-24998). If non-default HTTP connector settings were used such that the maxParameterCount could be reached using query string parameters and a request was submitted that supplied exactly maxParameterCount parameters in the query string, the limit for uploaded request parts could be bypassed. A remote attacker can initiate a series of uploads and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.15) Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-24998)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to Apache Commons FileUpload does not limit the number of request parts. A remote attacker can initiate a series of uploads and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
16) Code Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-45143)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to manipulate server output.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation within the JsonErrorReportValve when handling type, message or description values. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request and manipulate or invalidate JSON output.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
17) Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-42252)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform HTTP request smuggling attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of HTTP requests. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to the server and smuggle arbitrary HTTP headers via an invalid
Content-Length header.
Successful exploitation of vulnerability may allow an attacker to poison HTTP cache and perform phishing attacks but requires Tomcat to be configured to ignore invalid HTTP headers via setting
rejectIllegalHeader to false (not the default configuration).
18) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-34305)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data passed to the form authentication example in the examples web application. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
19) Data Handling (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-29885)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DoS attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an error in documentation for the EncryptInterceptor, which incorrectly stated that it enabled Tomcat clustering to run over an untrusted network. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service attack against the exposed EncryptInterceptor.
20) Security restrictions bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-23181)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to a time of check, time of use flaw when configured to persist sessions using the FileStore. A local user can perform certain actions which lead to security restrictions bypass and privilege escalation (code execution with Tomcat process privileges).
21) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-43980)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect implementation of blocking reads and writes. A remote attacker can trigger a concurrency bug and force client connections to share an Http11Processor instance resulting in responses, or part responses, to be received by the wrong client.
22) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-42340)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DoS attack on the target system.The vulnerability exists due memory leak when processing HTTP connections. A remote attacker can initiate multiple HTTP connections with the web server and consume all available memory on the system.
23) Infinite loop (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-41079)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to infinite loop when processing certain TLS packets. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted packet to the application, consume all available system resources and cause denial of service conditions.
Successful exploitation of vulnerability requires that Apache Tomcat is configured to use NIO+OpenSSL or NIO2+OpenSSL for TLS.
24) Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-33037)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to preform HTTP request smuggling attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of HTTP requests, related to processing of transfer encoding headers. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to the server and smuggle arbitrary HTTP headers.
Successful exploitation of vulnerability may allow an attacker to poison HTTP cache and perform phishing attacks.
25) Improper Authentication (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-30640)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass authentication process.
The vulnerability exists due to an error in the JNDI Realm when processing authentication requests. A remote attacker can authenticate using variations of a valid user name and bypass some of the protection provided by the LockOut Realm.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.