CVE-2016-6325
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-10-13 14:00
Modified
2024-08-06 01:29
Severity ?
Summary
The Tomcat package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 through 7, JBoss Web Server 3.0, and JBoss EWS 2 uses weak permissions for (1) /etc/sysconfig/tomcat and (2) /etc/tomcat/tomcat.conf, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging membership in the tomcat group.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2045.htmlVendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2046.htmlVendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0457.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93478
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0455
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0456
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1367447Issue Tracking, VDB Entry, Vendor Advisory
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