CVE-2016-1240 (GCVE-0-2016-1240)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-10-03 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 22:48
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Summary
The Tomcat init script in the tomcat7 package before 7.0.56-3+deb8u4 and tomcat8 package before 8.0.14-1+deb8u3 on Debian jessie and the tomcat6 and libtomcat6-java packages before 6.0.35-1ubuntu3.8 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, the tomcat7 and libtomcat7-java packages before 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.7 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and tomcat8 and libtomcat8-java packages before 8.0.32-1ubuntu1.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS allows local users with access to the tomcat account to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the Catalina log file, as demonstrated by /var/log/tomcat7/catalina.out.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2016-09-15 00:00
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    "redhat_vex": {
      "aggregate_severity": "Important",
      "current_release_date": "2026-02-25T17:27:03+00:00",
      "cve": "CVE-2016-1240",
      "id": "CVE-2016-1240",
      "initial_release_date": "2016-09-15T00:00:00+00:00",
      "product_status:fixed": "99",
      "product_status:known_affected": "4",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "34",
      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
      "title": "tomcat: unsafe chown of catalina.log in tomcat init script allows privilege escalation",
      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2016/cve-2016-1240.json",
      "version": "3"
    }
  }
}



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