Description
The Tomcat package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 through 7, JBoss Web Server 3.0, and JBoss EWS 2 uses weak permissions for (1) /etc/sysconfig/tomcat and (2) /etc/tomcat/tomcat.conf, which allows local users to gain 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.
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References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93478 ↗
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html ↗
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2045.html ↗
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2046.html ↗
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0457.html ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0455 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1367447 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0456 ↗