Medium: tomcat8

Issue Overview:

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:

tomcat8

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

New Packages:

noarch:  
    tomcat8-log4j-8.5.75-1.90.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat8-admin-webapps-8.5.75-1.90.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat8-el-3.0-api-8.5.75-1.90.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat8-javadoc-8.5.75-1.90.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat8-lib-8.5.75-1.90.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat8-docs-webapp-8.5.75-1.90.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat8-webapps-8.5.75-1.90.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat8-servlet-3.1-api-8.5.75-1.90.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat8-8.5.75-1.90.amzn1.noarch  
    tomcat8-jsp-2.3-api-8.5.75-1.90.amzn1.noarch  
  
src:  
    tomcat8-8.5.75-1.90.amzn1.src  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2022-23181

Mitre: CVE-2022-23181