Description
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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036979 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93472 ↗
- 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 ↗
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2046.html ↗
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40488/ ↗
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/6b414817c2b0bf351138911c8c922ec5dd577ebc0b9a7f42d705752d%40%3Cissues.activemq.apache.org%3E ↗
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html ↗