CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-6325
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-10-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/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-264
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 configurations
• apache tomcat
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2045.html Vendor Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2046.html Vendor Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0457.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93478 www.securityfocus.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0455 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0456 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1367447 Issue Tracking, VDB Entry, Vendor Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2045.html Vendor Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2046.html Vendor Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0457.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93478 www.securityfocus.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0455 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0456 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1367447 Issue Tracking, VDB Entry, Vendor Advisory