The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2023:2319-1 advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The package checks in this plugin were extracted from
# SUSE update advisory SUSE-SU-2023:2319-1. The text itself
# is copyright (C) SUSE.
##
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(176516);
script_version("1.2");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/07/12");
script_cve_id("CVE-2023-28709");
script_xref(name:"SuSE", value:"SUSE-SU-2023:2319-1");
script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2023-A-0266-S");
script_name(english:"SUSE SLES12 Security Update : tomcat (SUSE-SU-2023:2319-1)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-
SU-2023:2319-1 advisory.
- The fix for CVE-2023-24998 was incomplete for Apache Tomcat 11.0.0-M2 to 11.0.0-M4, 10.1.5 to 10.1.7,
9.0.71 to 9.0.73 and 8.5.85 to 8.5.87. If non-default HTTP connector settings were used such that the
maxParameterCount could be reached using query string parameters and a request was submitted that supplied
exactly maxParameterCount parameters in the query string, the limit for uploaded request parts could be
bypassed with the potential for a denial of service to occur. (CVE-2023-28709)
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1211608");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2023-May/029580.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-28709");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2023-28709");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2023/05/22");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2023/05/30");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2023/05/31");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-admin-webapps");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-docs-webapp");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-el-3_0-api");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-javadoc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-jsp-2_3-api");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-lib");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-servlet-3_1-api");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-webapps");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include('rpm.inc');
if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release");
if (isnull(os_release) || os_release !~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SUSE");
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^(SLE(S|D)\d+)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'SUSE');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^(SLES12)$", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'SUSE SLES12', 'SUSE (' + os_ver + ')');
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'SUSE (' + os_ver + ')', cpu);
var service_pack = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/patchlevel");
if (isnull(service_pack)) service_pack = "0";
if (os_ver == "SLES12" && (! preg(pattern:"^(2)$", string:service_pack))) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SLES12 SP2", os_ver + " SP" + service_pack);
var pkgs = [
{'reference':'tomcat-8.0.53-29.66.1', 'sp':'2', 'release':'SLES12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['sles-bcl-release-12.2']},
{'reference':'tomcat-admin-webapps-8.0.53-29.66.1', 'sp':'2', 'release':'SLES12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['sles-bcl-release-12.2']},
{'reference':'tomcat-docs-webapp-8.0.53-29.66.1', 'sp':'2', 'release':'SLES12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['sles-bcl-release-12.2']},
{'reference':'tomcat-el-3_0-api-8.0.53-29.66.1', 'sp':'2', 'release':'SLES12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['sles-bcl-release-12.2']},
{'reference':'tomcat-javadoc-8.0.53-29.66.1', 'sp':'2', 'release':'SLES12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['sles-bcl-release-12.2']},
{'reference':'tomcat-jsp-2_3-api-8.0.53-29.66.1', 'sp':'2', 'release':'SLES12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['sles-bcl-release-12.2']},
{'reference':'tomcat-lib-8.0.53-29.66.1', 'sp':'2', 'release':'SLES12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['sles-bcl-release-12.2']},
{'reference':'tomcat-servlet-3_1-api-8.0.53-29.66.1', 'sp':'2', 'release':'SLES12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['sles-bcl-release-12.2']},
{'reference':'tomcat-webapps-8.0.53-29.66.1', 'sp':'2', 'release':'SLES12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['sles-bcl-release-12.2']}
];
var ltss_caveat_required = FALSE;
var flag = 0;
foreach var package_array ( pkgs ) {
var reference = NULL;
var _release = NULL;
var sp = NULL;
var _cpu = NULL;
var exists_check = NULL;
var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = package_array['release'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['sp'])) sp = package_array['sp'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cpu'])) _cpu = package_array['cpu'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['exists_check'])) exists_check = package_array['exists_check'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
if (reference && _release) {
if (exists_check) {
var check_flag = 0;
foreach var check (exists_check) {
if (!rpm_exists(release:_release, rpm:check)) continue;
check_flag++;
}
if (!check_flag) continue;
}
if (rpm_check(release:_release, sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp)) flag++;
}
}
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_HOLE,
extra : rpm_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
var tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'tomcat / tomcat-admin-webapps / tomcat-docs-webapp / etc');
}