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RHSA-2021:0882: Red Hat Security Advisory: tomcat security update
An update for tomcat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. 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.Apache Tomcat is a servlet container for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP) technologies. Security Fix(es):
- tomcat: Session fixation when using FORM authentication (CVE-2019-17563)
- tomcat: Mishandling of Transfer-Encoding header allows for HTTP request smuggling (CVE-2020-1935) 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. Related CVEs:
- CVE-2019-17563: tomcat: Session fixation when using FORM authentication
- CVE-2020-1935: tomcat: Mishandling of Transfer-Encoding header allows for HTTP request smuggling