CVE-2016-5425 in Tomcat

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.

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• Reservation: 06/10/2016
• Disclosure: 10/13/2016
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 1: VDB-92549
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-264 (Confirmed)
• Exploit: Download
• CVSS: 7.8
• EPSS: 0.11552
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5425
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5425
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-5425/