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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2019-12418: Security patch for tomcat8 (ALAS-2020-1337)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2019-12418: Security patch for tomcat8 (ALAS-2020-1337)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/23/2019
Created
01/18/2020
Added
01/17/2020
Modified
10/14/2022

Description

When Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.28, 8.5.0 to 8.5.47, 7.0.0 and 7.0.97 is configured with the JMX Remote Lifecycle Listener, a local attacker without access to the Tomcat process or configuration files is able to manipulate the RMI registry to perform a man-in-the-middle attack to capture user names and passwords used to access the JMX interface. The attacker can then use these credentials to access the JMX interface and gain complete control over the Tomcat instance.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-tomcat8

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