CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-9775
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-03-23
- 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 postrm script in the tomcat6 package before 6.0.45+dfsg-1~deb7u3 on Debian wheezy, before 6.0.45+dfsg-1~deb8u1 on Debian jessie, before 6.0.35-1ubuntu3.9 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS; the tomcat7 package before 7.0.28-4+deb7u7 on Debian wheezy, before 7.0.56-3+deb8u6 on Debian jessie, before 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.8 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS, and 16.10; and the tomcat8 package before 8.0.14-1+deb8u5 on Debian jessie, before 8.0.32-1ubuntu1.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, before 8.0.37-1ubuntu0.1 on Ubuntu 16.10, and before 8.0.38-2ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 17.04 might allow local users with access to the tomcat account to gain root privileges via a setgid program in the Catalina directory, as demonstrated by /etc/tomcat8/Catalina/attack.
Affected configurations
• debian debian linux 7.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.10
• apache tomcat 6.0
• apache tomcat 7.0
• apache tomcat 8.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3738 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3739 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/10 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/5 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94643 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3177-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3177-2 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845385 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180731-0002/ security.netapp.com
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3738 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3739 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/10 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/5 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94643 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3177-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3177-2 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845385 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180731-0002/ security.netapp.com
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html www.oracle.com