CVE-2016-5425
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Oct 13, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Jun 10, 2016
Description
The Tomcat package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7, Fedora, CentOS, Oracle Linux, and possibly other Linux distributions uses weak permissions for /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tomcat.conf, which allows local users to gain root privileges by leveraging membership in the tomcat group.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- 1036979vdb-entry
- 93472vdb-entry
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/139041/Apache-Tomcat-8-7-6-Privilege-Escalation.html
- http://legalhackers.com/advisories/Tomcat-RedHat-Pkgs-Root-PrivEsc-Exploit-CVE-2016-5425.html
- [oss-security] 20161010 CVE-2016-5425 - Apache Tomcat packaging on RedHat-based distros - Root Privilege Escalation (affecting CentOS, Fedora, OracleLinux, RedHat etc.)mailing-list
- RHSA-2016:2046vendor-advisory
- 40488exploit
- [activemq-issues] 20190925 [jira] [Created] (AMQ-7310) Security Vulnerabilities in Tomcat-websocket-api.jarmailing-list
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html
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