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Amazon Linux 2 : tomcat (ALAS-2025-2920)

🗓️ 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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Tomcat prior to 7.0.76-10 has DoS vulnerability in Apache Commons FileUpload. Upgrade recommended.

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#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory ALAS-2025-2920.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(241723);
  script_version("1.2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2025/07/14");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2025-48976");
  script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2025-A-0437-S");

  script_name(english:"Amazon Linux 2 : tomcat (ALAS-2025-2920)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The version of tomcat installed on the remote host is prior to 7.0.76-10. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability
as referenced in the ALAS2-2025-2920 advisory.

    Allocation of resources for multipart headers with insufficient limits enabled a DoS vulnerability in
    Apache Commons FileUpload.

    This issue affects Apache Commons FileUpload: from 1.0 before 1.6; from 2.0.0-M1 before 2.0.0-M4.

    Users are recommended to upgrade to versions 1.6 or 2.0.0-M4, which fix the issue. (CVE-2025-48976)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com//AL2/ALAS2-2025-2920.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2025-48976.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Run 'yum update tomcat' to update your system.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss4_vector", value:"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss4_threat_vector", value:"CVSS:4.0/E:U");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2025-48976");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2025/06/09");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2025/07/10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2025/07/10");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:tomcat");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:tomcat-admin-webapps");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:tomcat-docs-webapp");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:tomcat-el-2.2-api");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:tomcat-javadoc");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:tomcat-jsp-2.2-api");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:tomcat-jsvc");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:tomcat-lib");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:tomcat-servlet-3.0-api");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:tomcat-webapps");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2025 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/AmazonLinux/release", "Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list");

  exit(0);
}

include("rpm.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);

var alas_release = get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/release");
if (isnull(alas_release) || !strlen(alas_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux");
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^AL(A|\d+|-\d+)", string:alas_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (os_ver != "2")
{
  if (os_ver == 'A') os_ver = 'AMI';
  audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux 2", "Amazon Linux " + os_ver);
}

if (!get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var pkgs = [
    {'reference':'tomcat-7.0.76-10.amzn2.0.12', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'tomcat-admin-webapps-7.0.76-10.amzn2.0.12', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'tomcat-docs-webapp-7.0.76-10.amzn2.0.12', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'tomcat-el-2.2-api-7.0.76-10.amzn2.0.12', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'tomcat-javadoc-7.0.76-10.amzn2.0.12', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'tomcat-jsp-2.2-api-7.0.76-10.amzn2.0.12', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'tomcat-jsvc-7.0.76-10.amzn2.0.12', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'tomcat-lib-7.0.76-10.amzn2.0.12', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'tomcat-servlet-3.0-api-7.0.76-10.amzn2.0.12', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'tomcat-webapps-7.0.76-10.amzn2.0.12', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
];

var flag = 0;
foreach var package_array ( pkgs ) {
  var reference = NULL;
  var _release = NULL;
  var sp = NULL;
  var _cpu = NULL;
  var el_string = NULL;
  var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
  var epoch = NULL;
  var allowmaj = NULL;
  var exists_check = NULL;
  var cves = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = package_array['release'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['sp'])) sp = package_array['sp'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cpu'])) _cpu = package_array['cpu'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['el_string'])) el_string = package_array['el_string'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['epoch'])) epoch = package_array['epoch'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = package_array['allowmaj'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['exists_check'])) exists_check = package_array['exists_check'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cves'])) cves = package_array['cves'];
  if (reference && _release && (!exists_check || rpm_exists(release:_release, rpm:exists_check))) {
    if (rpm_check(release:_release, sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj, cves:cves)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
      extra      : rpm_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "tomcat / tomcat-admin-webapps / tomcat-docs-webapp / etc");
}

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