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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2022-29885 in the critical feed json

EncryptInterceptor does not provide complete protection on insecure networks

published 2022-05-12 4 y ago modified 2026-10-08 31 d ago also BIT-tomcat-2022-29885 , EUVD-2022-5128 , GHSA-r84p-88g2-2vx2

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
73.5%
EPSS 73.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.4%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

The documentation of Apache Tomcat 10.1.0-M1 to 10.1.0-M14, 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.20, 9.0.13 to 9.0.62 and 8.5.38 to 8.5.78 for the EncryptInterceptor incorrectly stated it enabled Tomcat clustering to run over an untrusted network. This was not correct. While the EncryptInterceptor does provide confidentiality and integrity protection, it does not protect against all risks associated with running over any untrusted network, particularly DoS risks.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat 8.5.79, 9.0.63, 10.0.21, 10.1.0-M15
  • bitnami tomcat 8.5.79, 9.0.63, 10.0.21
  • tomcat9 Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 9.0.63-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-29885

  • tomcat9 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 9.0.31-1ubuntu0.6
  • tomcat8 Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 8.5.39-1ubuntu1~18.04.3+esm2
  • tomcat9 Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 9.0.16-3ubuntu0.18.04.2+esm2
  • tomcat9 Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS 9.0.58-1ubuntu0.1+esm2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-29885

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-29885 updated cvss 3.7

tomcat: EncryptInterceptor documentation mistake

  • Red Hat Decision Manager 7 tomcat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 tomcat6, tomcat6-lib, tomcat6-log4j, tomcat6-javadoc, tomcat6-webapps, tomcat6-el-2.1-api, +4 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 tomcat, tomcat-lib, tomcat-jsvc, tomcat-javadoc, tomcat-webapps, tomcat-el-2.2-api, +4 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 pki-servlet-engine, pki-servlet-4.0-api Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 pki-servlet-engine, pki-servlet-4.0-api Red Hat Fuse 7 tomcat
    +10 more products
    Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 tomcat Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 tomcat Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5 tomcat Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) opendaylight Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) opendaylight Red Hat Process Automation 7 tomcat Red Hat support for Spring Boot tomcat
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “For customers who use clustering on an untrusted network and require full protection, an alternate solution is recommended such as using a VPN.”
  • Red Hat JBoss Web Server 6 tomcat
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-51262)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
31 d ago

Exploit prediction

73.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.4% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-51262 Apache Tomcat 10.1 - Denial Of Service dos, 2023-04-05

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
OSV 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat
>=10.1.0-M1, <10.1.0-M15
>=10.0.0-M1, <10.0.21
>=9.0.13, <9.0.63
>=8.5.38, <8.5.79
10.1.0-M15
10.0.21
9.0.63
8.5.79
bitnami tomcat
>=8.5.38, <8.5.79
>=9.0.13, <9.0.63
>=10.0.0, <10.0.21
8.5.79
9.0.63
10.0.21

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Tomcat

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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