CVE-2016-5425

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

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.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.8. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

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

First reported 8 years ago

2016-10-13 14:59:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-12-27 16:08:00

Affected Software

Apache Software Foundation Tomcat

References

http://legalhackers.com/advisories/Tomcat-RedHat-Pkgs-Root-PrivEsc-Exploit-CVE-2016-5425.html

Vendor Advisory

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/139041/Apache-Tomcat-8-7-6-Privilege-Escalation.html

Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

RHSA-2016:2046

Third Party Advisory

[oss-security] 20161010 CVE-2016-5425 - Apache Tomcat packaging on RedHat-based distros - Root Privilege Escalation (affecting CentOS, Fedora, OracleLinux, RedHat etc.)

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html

Third Party Advisory

93472

Broken Link

1036979

[activemq-issues] 20190925 [jira] [Created] (AMQ-7310) Security Vulnerabilities in Tomcat-websocket-api.jar

40488

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html

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