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HistorySep 30, 2020 - 12:00 a.m.

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Tomcat vulnerabilities (USN-4557-1)

2020-09-3000:00:00
Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2020-2024 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2020-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
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tomcat vulnerabilities
ubuntu 16.04
usn-4557-1
remote attacker
security manager
jndi resources
http request
arbitrary code

CVSS2

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS3

9.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

AI Score

9.2

Confidence

Low

EPSS

0.737

Percentile

98.2%

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4557-1 advisory.

It was discovered that the Tomcat realm implementations incorrectly handled passwords when a username     didn't exist. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to enumerate usernames. (CVE-2016-0762)

Alvaro Munoz and Alexander Mirosh discovered that Tomcat incorrectly limited use of a certain utility     method. A malicious application could possibly use this to bypass Security Manager restrictions.
(CVE-2016-5018)

It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly controlled reading system properties. A malicious application     could possibly use this to bypass Security Manager restrictions. (CVE-2016-6794)

It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly controlled certain configuration parameters. A malicious     application could possibly use this to bypass Security Manager restrictions. (CVE-2016-6796)

It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly limited access to global JNDI resources. A malicious application     could use this to access any global JNDI resource without an explicit ResourceLink. (CVE-2016-6797)

Regis Leroy discovered that Tomcat incorrectly filtered certain invalid characters from the HTTP request     line. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to inject data into HTTP responses. (CVE-2016-6816)

Pierre Ernst discovered that the Tomcat JmxRemoteLifecycleListener did not implement a recommended fix. A     remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-8735)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4557-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See
# <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
#

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(141092);
  script_version("1.6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/08/27");

  script_cve_id(
    "CVE-2016-0762",
    "CVE-2016-5018",
    "CVE-2016-6794",
    "CVE-2016-6796",
    "CVE-2016-6797",
    "CVE-2016-6816",
    "CVE-2016-8735"
  );
  script_bugtraq_id(
    93939,
    93940,
    93942,
    93943,
    93944,
    94461,
    94463
  );
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"4557-1");
  script_xref(name:"CISA-KNOWN-EXPLOITED", value:"2023/06/02");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Tomcat vulnerabilities (USN-4557-1)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in
the USN-4557-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that the Tomcat realm implementations incorrectly handled passwords when a username
    didn't exist. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to enumerate usernames. (CVE-2016-0762)

    Alvaro Munoz and Alexander Mirosh discovered that Tomcat incorrectly limited use of a certain utility
    method. A malicious application could possibly use this to bypass Security Manager restrictions.
    (CVE-2016-5018)

    It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly controlled reading system properties. A malicious application
    could possibly use this to bypass Security Manager restrictions. (CVE-2016-6794)

    It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly controlled certain configuration parameters. A malicious
    application could possibly use this to bypass Security Manager restrictions. (CVE-2016-6796)

    It was discovered that Tomcat incorrectly limited access to global JNDI resources. A malicious application
    could use this to access any global JNDI resource without an explicit ResourceLink. (CVE-2016-6797)

    Regis Leroy discovered that Tomcat incorrectly filtered certain invalid characters from the HTTP request
    line. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to inject data into HTTP responses. (CVE-2016-6816)

    Pierre Ernst discovered that the Tomcat JmxRemoteLifecycleListener did not implement a recommended fix. A
    remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-8735)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4557-1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected libservlet2.5-java package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2016-8735");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2017/03/20");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/09/30");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/09/30");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libservlet2.5-java");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2020-2024 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2020-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}

include('debian_package.inc');

if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled') ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/Ubuntu/release');
if ( isnull(os_release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu');
os_release = chomp(os_release);
if (! ('16.04' >< os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu 16.04', 'Ubuntu ' + os_release);
if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/Debian/dpkg-l') ) 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, 'Ubuntu', cpu);

var pkgs = [
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libservlet2.5-java', 'pkgver': '6.0.45+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1'}
];

var flag = 0;
foreach var package_array ( pkgs ) {
  var osver = NULL;
  var pkgname = NULL;
  var pkgver = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['osver'])) osver = package_array['osver'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['pkgname'])) pkgname = package_array['pkgname'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['pkgver'])) pkgver = package_array['pkgver'];
  if (osver && pkgname && pkgver) {
    if (ubuntu_check(osver:osver, pkgname:pkgname, pkgver:pkgver)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  var extra = '';
  extra += ubuntu_report_get();
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
    extra      : extra
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'libservlet2.5-java');
}

CVSS2

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS3

9.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

AI Score

9.2

Confidence

Low

EPSS

0.737

Percentile

98.2%