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Amazon Linux 2 : tomcat, --advisory ALAS2TOMCAT9-2025-022 (ALASTOMCAT9-2025-022)

🗓️ 05 Sep 2025 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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Amazon Linux 2 Tomcat is vulnerable to CVE-2025-48989; upgrade to 11.0.10, 10.1.44, or 9.0.108.

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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 ALASTOMCAT9-2025-022.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(261440);
  script_version("1.2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2026/01/21");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2025-48989");
  script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2025-A-0582-S");

  script_name(english:"Amazon Linux 2 : tomcat, --advisory ALAS2TOMCAT9-2025-022 (ALASTOMCAT9-2025-022)");

  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 9.0.108-1. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability
as referenced in the ALAS2TOMCAT9-2025-022 advisory.

    Improper Resource Shutdown or Release vulnerability in Apache Tomcat made Tomcat vulnerable to the made
    you reset attack.

    This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.9, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.43 and from
    9.0.0.M1 through 9.0.107. Older, EOL versions may also be affected.

    Users are recommended to upgrade to one of versions 11.0.10, 10.1.44 or 9.0.108 which fix the issue.
    (CVE-2025-48989)

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/ALAS2TOMCAT9-2025-022.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-2025-48989.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Run 'yum update tomcat' or
  or 'yum update --advisory ALAS2TOMCAT9-2025-022' 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:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2025-48989");

  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:"2025/08/06");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2025/09/04");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2025/09/05");

  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-3.0-api");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:tomcat-jsp-2.3-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-4.0-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) 2025-2026 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 REPOS_FOUND = TRUE;
var extras_list = get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/extras_label_list");
if (isnull(extras_list)) REPOS_FOUND = FALSE;
var repository = '"amzn2extra-tomcat9"';
if (REPOS_FOUND && (repository >!< extras_list)) exit(0, AFFECTED_REPO_NOT_ENABLED);

var pkgs = [
    {'reference':'tomcat-9.0.108-1.amzn2.0.1', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'tomcat9'},
    {'reference':'tomcat-admin-webapps-9.0.108-1.amzn2.0.1', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'tomcat9'},
    {'reference':'tomcat-docs-webapp-9.0.108-1.amzn2.0.1', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'tomcat9'},
    {'reference':'tomcat-el-3.0-api-9.0.108-1.amzn2.0.1', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'tomcat9'},
    {'reference':'tomcat-jsp-2.3-api-9.0.108-1.amzn2.0.1', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'tomcat9'},
    {'reference':'tomcat-jsvc-9.0.108-1.amzn2.0.1', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'tomcat9'},
    {'reference':'tomcat-lib-9.0.108-1.amzn2.0.1', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'tomcat9'},
    {'reference':'tomcat-servlet-4.0-api-9.0.108-1.amzn2.0.1', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'tomcat9'},
    {'reference':'tomcat-webapps-9.0.108-1.amzn2.0.1', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'tomcat9'}
];

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)
{
  var extra = rpm_report_get();
  if (!REPOS_FOUND) extra = rpm_report_get() + report_repo_caveat();
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
      extra      : extra
  );
  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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