{"id":"CVE-2016-8657","state":"PUBLISHED","title":"It was discovered that EAP packages in certain versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux use incorrect permissions for /etc/sysconfig/jbossas configuration files. The file is writable t","description":"It was discovered that EAP packages in certain versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux use incorrect permissions for /etc/sysconfig/jbossas configuration files. The file is writable to jboss group (root:jboss, 664). On systems using classic /etc/init.d init scripts (i.e. on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and earlier), the file is sourced by the jboss init script and its content executed with root privileges when jboss service is started, stopped, or restarted.","publishedAt":"2018-07-31T19:00:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2024-08-06T02:27:41.296Z","severity":null,"assigner":"redhat","products":["n/a n/a"],"affected":[{"vendor":"n/a","product":"n/a","versions":[{"version":"n/a","status":"affected"}]}],"references":["http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0828.html","http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0827.html","https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1609","https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8657","http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0826.html","http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0829.html","http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96896"],"weaknesses":[],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-29T19:42:55.629Z","source":{"repository":"CVEProject/cvelistV5","path":"cves/2016/8xxx/CVE-2016-8657.json","commit":"556c9d3a8cd17e218bb8e452ba7cd619a384ff47"},"raw":{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.1","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2016-8657","state":"PUBLISHED","datePublished":"2018-07-31T19:00:00.000Z","dateUpdated":"2024-08-06T02:27:41.296Z","assignerShortName":"redhat","assignerOrgId":"53f830b8-0a3f-465b-8143-3b8a9948e749","dateReserved":"2016-10-12T00:00:00.000Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"It was discovered that EAP packages in certain versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux use incorrect permissions for /etc/sysconfig/jbossas configuration files. The file is writable to jboss group (root:jboss, 664). On systems using classic /etc/init.d init scripts (i.e. on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and earlier), the file is sourced by the jboss init script and its content executed with root privileges when jboss service is started, stopped, or restarted."}],"affected":[{"vendor":"n/a","product":"n/a","versions":[{"version":"n/a","status":"affected"}]}],"references":[{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0828.html","name":"RHSA-2017:0828","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_REDHAT"]},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0827.html","name":"RHSA-2017:0827","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_REDHAT"]},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1609","name":"RHSA-2018:1609","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_REDHAT"]},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8657","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM"]},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0826.html","name":"RHSA-2017:0826","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_REDHAT"]},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0829.html","name":"RHSA-2017:0829","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_REDHAT"]},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96896","name":"96896","tags":["vdb-entry","x_refsource_BID"]}],"problemTypes":[{"descriptions":[{"description":"n/a","lang":"en","type":"text"}]}],"providerMetadata":{"shortName":"redhat","dateUpdated":"2018-08-01T09:57:01.000Z","orgId":"53f830b8-0a3f-465b-8143-3b8a9948e749"},"datePublic":"2016-10-10T00:00:00.000Z"},"adp":[{"title":"CVE Program Container","references":[{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0828.html","name":"RHSA-2017:0828","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_REDHAT","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0827.html","name":"RHSA-2017:0827","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_REDHAT","x_transferred"]},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1609","name":"RHSA-2018:1609","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_REDHAT","x_transferred"]},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8657","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0826.html","name":"RHSA-2017:0826","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_REDHAT","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0829.html","name":"RHSA-2017:0829","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_REDHAT","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96896","name":"96896","tags":["vdb-entry","x_refsource_BID","x_transferred"]}],"providerMetadata":{"shortName":"CVE","orgId":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108","dateUpdated":"2024-08-06T02:27:41.296Z"}}]}}}