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CVE-2016-5425

Date: October 13, 2016

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 Score

Related Resources (13)

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2046.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5425
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/139041/Apache-Tomcat-8-7-6-Privilege-Escalation.html
http://legalhackers.com/advisories/Tomcat-RedHat-Pkgs-Root-PrivEsc-Exploit-CVE-2016-5425.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/10/2
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40488/
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/6b414817c2b0bf351138911c8c922ec5dd577ebc0b9a7f42d705752d%40%3Cissues.activemq.apache.org%3E
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5425
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036979
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93472
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2016-5425

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Incorrect Default Permissions

CWE-276

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): LOW
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): COMPLETE
Integrity (I): COMPLETE
Availability (A): COMPLETE
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