Apache Tomcat DoS Vulnerability (Mar 2019) - Linux

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

CPE = "cpe:/a:apache:tomcat";

if (description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.142264");
  script_version("2024-02-08T14:36:53+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-08 14:36:53 +0000 (Thu, 08 Feb 2024)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2019-04-16 07:09:53 +0000 (Tue, 16 Apr 2019)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2019-05-28 21:29:00 +0000 (Tue, 28 May 2019)");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2019-0199");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  script_name("Apache Tomcat DoS Vulnerability (Mar 2019) - Linux");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2019 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Denial of Service");
  script_dependencies("gb_apache_tomcat_consolidation.nasl", "os_detection.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("apache/tomcat/detected", "Host/runs_unixoide");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Apache Tomcat is prone to a denial of service vulnerability in the HTTP/2
  implementation.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The HTTP/2 implementation accepts streams with excessive numbers of SETTINGS
  frames and also permitts clients to keep streams open without reading/writing request/response data. By keeping
  streams open for requests that utilises the Servlet API's blocking I/O, clients are able to cause server-side
  threads to block eventually leading to thread exhaustion and a DoS.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Apache Tomcat 8.5.0 to 8.5.37 and 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.14.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 8.5.38, 9.0.16 or later.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://tomcat.apache.org/security-9.html");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://tomcat.apache.org/security-8.html");

  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("version_func.inc");

if (isnull(port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE)))
  exit(0);

if (!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE))
  exit(0);

version = infos['version'];
path = infos['location'];

if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "8.5.0", test_version2: "8.5.37")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "8.5.38", install_path: path);
  security_message(port: port, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

if ((revcomp(a: version, b: "9.0.0.M1") >= 0) && (revcomp(a: version, b: "9.0.14") <= 0)) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "9.0.16", install_path: path);
  security_message(port: port, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);