Important: tomcat8

Issue Overview:

When using Apache Tomcat versions 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.0-M4, 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.34, 8.5.0 to 8.5.54 and 7.0.0 to 7.0.103 if a) an attacker is able to control the contents and name of a file on the server; and b) the server is configured to use the PersistenceManager with a FileStore; and c) the PersistenceManager is configured with sessionAttributeValueClassNameFilter=“null” (the default unless a SecurityManager is used) or a sufficiently lax filter to allow the attacker provided object to be deserialized; and d) the attacker knows the relative file path from the storage location used by FileStore to the file the attacker has control over; then, using a specifically crafted request, the attacker will be able to trigger remote code execution via deserialization of the file under their control. Note that all of conditions a) to d) must be true for the attack to succeed. (CVE-2020-9484)

Affected Packages:

tomcat8

Issue Correction:
Run yum update tomcat8 to update your system.

New Packages:

noarch:  
    tomcat8-8.5.56-1.84.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat8-docs-webapp-8.5.56-1.84.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat8-webapps-8.5.56-1.84.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat8-log4j-8.5.56-1.84.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat8-lib-8.5.56-1.84.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat8-el-3.0-api-8.5.56-1.84.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat8-servlet-3.1-api-8.5.56-1.84.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat8-javadoc-8.5.56-1.84.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat8-admin-webapps-8.5.56-1.84.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat8-jsp-2.3-api-8.5.56-1.84.amzn1.noarch  
  
src:  
    tomcat8-8.5.56-1.84.amzn1.src  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2020-9484

Mitre: CVE-2020-9484