rhsa-2025:1920
Vulnerability from csaf_redhat
Published
2025-02-27 11:20
Modified
2025-04-08 16:10
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: pki-servlet-engine security update

Notes

Topic
An update for pki-servlet-engine is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Details
Tomcat is the servlet engine that is used in the official Reference Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies. The Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages specifications are developed by Sun under the Java Community Process. Tomcat is developed in an open and participatory environment and released under the Apache Software License version 2.0. Tomcat is intended to be a collaboration of the best-of-breed developers from around the world. Security Fix(es): * tomcat: RCE due to TOCTOU issue in JSP compilation (CVE-2024-50379) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Terms of Use
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