RHSA-2023:6570 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: tomcat security and bug fix update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · November 7, 2023
Updated · October 8, 2026
Topic
An update for tomcat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
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.
Description
Apache Tomcat is a servlet container for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP) technologies.
Security Fix(es):
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Apache Commons FileUpload: FileUpload DoS with excessive parts (CVE-2023-24998)
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tomcat: not including the secure attribute causes information disclosure (CVE-2023-28708)
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tomcat: Fix for CVE-2023-24998 was incomplete (CVE-2023-28709)
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.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.