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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2022-23181: Security patch for tomcat8 (ALAS-2022-1572)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2022-23181: Security patch for tomcat8 (ALAS-2022-1572)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/27/2022
Created
03/11/2022
Added
03/09/2022
Modified
10/14/2022

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-tomcat8

References

  • ALAS-2022-1572
  • CVE-2022-23181

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