Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Apache Tomcat - CVE-2019-12418

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to the local user 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.

Successful vulnerability exploitation requires that Apache Tomcat is configured with the JMX Remote Lifecycle Listener.

Affected software

How to mitigate CVE-2019-12418

External References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00013.html
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/43530b91506e2e0c11cfbe691173f5df8c48f51b98262426d7493b67%40%3Cannounce.tomcat.apache.org%3E
• https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/43
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200107-0001/
• https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K10107360?utm_source=f5support&utm_medium=RSS
• https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4596

Related Security Bulletins

• Privilege escalation in Apache Tomcat
• OpenSUSE Linux update for tomcat
• Amazon Linux AMI update for tomcat8
• Gentoo update for Apache Tomcat
• Debian update for tomcat9
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Dell Support Assist Enterprise
• Fedora EPEL 6 update for tomcat
• Ubuntu update for tomcat8