CVE-2022-23181

Published: 27 January 2022

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.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.0

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
tomcat8 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Needs triage
	trusty	Ignored (out of standard support)
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Needs triage
tomcat9 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Needs triage
	focal	Needs triage
	impish	Ignored (reached end-of-life)
	jammy	Needs triage
	kinetic	Needs triage
	lunar	Needs triage
	trusty	Ignored (out of standard support)
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Ignored (out of standard support)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.0
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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