Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALASTOMCAT9-2023-003
Advisory Release Date: 2023-08-21 20:58 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-09-25 21:58 Pacific
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. (CVE-2022-23181)
Affected Packages:
tomcat
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 - Tomcat9 Extra. Visit this page to learn more about Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Extras and this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update tomcat to update your system.
noarch:
tomcat-9.0.58-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch
tomcat-admin-webapps-9.0.58-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch
tomcat-docs-webapp-9.0.58-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch
tomcat-jsvc-9.0.58-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch
tomcat-jsp-2.3-api-9.0.58-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch
tomcat-lib-9.0.58-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch
tomcat-servlet-4.0-api-9.0.58-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch
tomcat-el-3.0-api-9.0.58-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch
tomcat-webapps-9.0.58-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch
src:
tomcat-9.0.58-1.amzn2.0.1.src