SMARTS SAM Tomcat is not vulnerable CVE-2023-34981

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

A regression in the fix for bug 66512 in Apache Tomcat 11.0.0-M5, 10.1.8, 9.0.74 and 8.5.88 meant that, if a response did not include any HTTP headers no AJP SEND_HEADERS messare woudl be sent for the response which in turn meant that at least one AJP proxy (mod_proxy_ajp) would use the response headers from the previous request leading to an information leak.

 

NVD - CVE-2023-34981 (nist.gov)

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Resolution

According to the CVE details the version of Tomcat 9.0.74 is impacted by this CVE-2023-34981.

Smarts 10.1.9 and 10.1.12 uses Tomcat 9.0.72 and is not impacted by this CVE.