Lucene search

K
nessusThis script is Copyright (C) 2019-2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.DEBIAN_DSA-4596.NASL
HistoryDec 30, 2019 - 12:00 a.m.

Debian DSA-4596-1 : tomcat8 - security update

2019-12-3000:00:00
This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
www.tenable.com
33

Several issues were discovered in the Tomcat servlet and JSP engine, which could result in session fixation attacks, information disclosure, cross-site scripting, denial of service via resource exhaustion and insecure redirects.

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-4596. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(132427);
  script_version("1.6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/02/23");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2018-11784", "CVE-2018-8014", "CVE-2019-0199", "CVE-2019-0221", "CVE-2019-12418", "CVE-2019-17563");
  script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"4596");
  script_xref(name:"CEA-ID", value:"CEA-2021-0004");
  script_xref(name:"CEA-ID", value:"CEA-2021-0025");

  script_name(english:"Debian DSA-4596-1 : tomcat8 - security update");
  script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis",
    value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description",
    value:
"Several issues were discovered in the Tomcat servlet and JSP engine,
which could result in session fixation attacks, information
disclosure, cross-site scripting, denial of service via resource
exhaustion and insecure redirects."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/tomcat8"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/tomcat8"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4596"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution",
    value:
"Upgrade the tomcat8 packages.

For the oldstable distribution (stretch), these problems have been
fixed in version 8.5.50-0+deb9u1. This update also requires an updated
version of tomcat-native which has been updated to 1.2.21-1~deb9u1."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:H/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2018-8014");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploited_by_malware", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tomcat8");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/05/16");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/12/27");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/12/30");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"libservlet3.1-java", reference:"8.5.50-0+deb9u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"libservlet3.1-java-doc", reference:"8.5.50-0+deb9u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"libtomcat8-embed-java", reference:"8.5.50-0+deb9u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"libtomcat8-java", reference:"8.5.50-0+deb9u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"tomcat8", reference:"8.5.50-0+deb9u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"tomcat8-admin", reference:"8.5.50-0+deb9u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"tomcat8-common", reference:"8.5.50-0+deb9u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"tomcat8-docs", reference:"8.5.50-0+deb9u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"tomcat8-examples", reference:"8.5.50-0+deb9u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"tomcat8-user", reference:"8.5.50-0+deb9u1")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
VendorProductVersionCPE
debiandebian_linuxtomcat8p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tomcat8
debiandebian_linux9.0cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0