Impact of CVE-2020-9484 (Apache Tomcat) Vulnerability in DLO

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Article ID: 100048580

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Description

Reference:

More information on this vulnerability can be found at the National Vulnerability Database at the following link;
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-9484

 

Resolution

Veritas Desktop and Laptop Option (DLO) is not affected by this vulnerability.

The vulnerability can only be exploited if the PersistenceManager is used with a FileStore, which DLO does not. This option is not enabled against either the Dedupe or IO server options that use Apache Tomcat in DLO.

Issue/Introduction

Veritas Corporation is aware of the issue referred to in CVE-2020-9484, which impacts Apache Tomcat; if 4x specific circumstances are in place, an attacker may be allowed to control the contents and name of a file on the server.

Reference:

More information on this vulnerability can be found at the National Vulnerability Database at the following link;
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-9484