CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-5425
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-10-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-276
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 configurations
• apache tomcat
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions weakness
References
- http://legalhackers.com/advisories/Tomcat-RedHat-Pkgs-Root-PrivEsc-Exploit-CVE-2016-5425.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/139041/Apache-Tomcat-8-7-6-Privilege-Escalation.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2046.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/10/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93472 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036979 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/6b414817c2b0bf351138911c8c922ec5dd577ebc0b9a7f42d705752d%40%3Cissues.activemq.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40488/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html Third Party Advisory
- http://legalhackers.com/advisories/Tomcat-RedHat-Pkgs-Root-PrivEsc-Exploit-CVE-2016-5425.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/139041/Apache-Tomcat-8-7-6-Privilege-Escalation.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2046.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/10/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93472 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036979 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/6b414817c2b0bf351138911c8c922ec5dd577ebc0b9a7f42d705752d%40%3Cissues.activemq.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40488/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html Third Party Advisory