CVE-2016-5425
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-10-13 14:00
Modified
2024-08-06 01:00
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://legalhackers.com/advisories/Tomcat-RedHat-Pkgs-Root-PrivEsc-Exploit-CVE-2016-5425.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/139041/Apache-Tomcat-8-7-6-Privilege-Escalation.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2046.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/10/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93472Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036979Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/6b414817c2b0bf351138911c8c922ec5dd577ebc0b9a7f42d705752d%40%3Cissues.activemq.apache.org%3E
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40488/Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.htmlThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
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