Bug 2333521 (CVE-2024-56337)

Summary:	CVE-2024-56337 tomcat: Incomplete fix for CVE-2024-50379 - RCE due to TOCTOU issue in JSP compilation
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	csutherl, jclere, pjindal, plodge, szappis, vrajput
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Doc Text:	The fix for CVE-2024-50379 in Apache Tomcat was insufficient to mitigate the issue fully. A Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition occurs during JSP compilation on case-insensitive file systems when the default servlet is enabled for writing. This vulnerability allows an uploaded file to be treated as a JSP and executed, resulting in remote code execution.	Story Points:	---
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-12-20 16:01:10 UTC

Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition vulnerability in Apache Tomcat.

This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.1, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.33, from 9.0.0.M1 through 9.0.97.

The mitigation for CVE-2024-50379 was incomplete.

Users running Tomcat on a case insensitive file system with the default servlet write enabled (readonly initialisation 
parameter set to the non-default value of false) may need additional configuration to fully mitigate CVE-2024-50379 depending on which version of Java they are using with Tomcat:
- running on Java 8 or Java 11: the system property sun.io.useCanonCaches must be explicitly set to false (it defaults to true)
- running on Java 17: the system property sun.io.useCanonCaches, if set, must be set to false (it defaults to false)
- running on Java 21 onwards: no further configuration is required (the system property and the problematic cache have been removed)

Tomcat 11.0.3, 10.1.35 and 9.0.99 onwards will include checks that sun.io.useCanonCaches is set appropriately before allowing the default servlet to be write enabled on a case insensitive file system. Tomcat will also set sun.io.useCanonCaches to false by default where it can.

Comment 3 Abhishek Raj 2025-01-24 06:04:23 UTC

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/7104760

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2025-05-08 12:15:09 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Web Server

Via RHSA-2025:4522 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:4522

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2025-05-08 12:15:46 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.8 on RHEL 7
  Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.8 on RHEL 8
  Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.8 on RHEL 9

Via RHSA-2025:4521 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:4521