CVE-2016-5425 (GCVE-0-2016-5425)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-10-13 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:00
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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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1039 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2016-10-10 00:00
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