CVE-2019-12418

tomcat: local privilege escalation

Published Dec 23, 2019 CVSS 3.1 · 7.0 High EPSS 1.2% KEV · Not listed
Description
When Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.28, 8.5.0 to 8.5.47, 7.0.0 and 7.0.97 is configured with the JMX Remote Lifecycle Listener, a local attacker without access to the Tomcat process or configuration files is able to manipulate the RMI registry to perform a man-in-the-middle attack to capture user names and passwords used to access the JMX interface. The attacker can then use these credentials to access the JMX interface and gain complete control over the Tomcat instance.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2077-1 tomcat7 security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2155-1 tomcat8 security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4596-1 tomcat8 security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4680-1 tomcat9 security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-0793 When Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.28, 8.5.0 to 8.5.47, 7.0.0 and 7.0.97 is configured with the JMX Remote Lifecycle Listener, a local attacker without access to the Tomcat process or configuration files is able to manipulate the RMI registry to perform a man-in-the-middle attack to capture user names and passwords used to access the JMX interface. The attacker can then use these credentials to access the JMX interface and gain complete control over the Tomcat instance.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-hh3j-x4mc-g48r Insufficiently Protected Credentials in Apache Tomcat
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4251-1 Tomcat vulnerabilities
References
Link Providers
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00013.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/tomcat-users/201912.mbox/%3C3f42d82c-d9e9-8893-9820-df4e420e5c4e@apache.org%3E cve-icon
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-8.html#Fixed_in_Apache_Tomcat_8.5.49 cve-icon
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-9.html#Fixed_in_Apache_Tomcat_9.0.29 cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/43530b91506e2e0c11cfbe691173f5df8c48f51b98262426d7493b67%40%3Cannounce.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r3bbb800a816d0a51eccc5a228c58736960a9fffafa581a225834d97d%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r48c1444845fe15a823e1374674bfc297d5008a5453788099ea14caf0%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r6ccee4e849bc77df0840c7f853f6bd09d426f6741247da2b7429d5d9%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9136ff5b13e4f1941360b5a309efee2c114a14855578c3a2cbe5d19c%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/raba0fabaf4d56d4325ab2aca8814f0b30a237ab83d8106b115ee279a%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00024.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00029.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12418 cve-icon
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/43 cve-icon cve-icon
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-43 cve-icon cve-icon
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200107-0001/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K10107360?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSS cve-icon cve-icon
https://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html#Fixed_in_Apache_Tomcat_7.0.99 cve-icon
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4251-1/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-12418 cve-icon
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4596 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4680 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html cve-icon cve-icon
History
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