CVE-2004-1452

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

Tomcat before 5.0.27-r3 in Gentoo Linux sets the default permissions on the init scripts as tomcat:tomcat, but executes the scripts with root privileges, which could allow local users in the tomcat group to execute arbitrary commands as root by modifying the scripts.

Tomcat before 5.0.27-r3 in Gentoo Linux sets the default permissions on the init scripts as tomcat:tomcat, but executes the scripts with root privileges, which could allow local users in the tomcat group to execute arbitrary commands as root by modifying the scripts.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

Gentoo Linux

First reported 20 years ago

2004-12-31 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:31:00

Affected Software

Gentoo Linux 1.2

1.2

Gentoo Linux 1.4

1.4

Gentoo Linux 1.4 rc1

1.4

Gentoo Linux 1.4 rc2

1.4

Gentoo Linux 1.4 rc3

1.4

References

12296

Patch

GLSA-200408-15

Patch

10951

Patch

gentoo-tomcat-gain-privileges(16993)

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