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- published19 Aug 2020
- disclosed13 Oct 2016
Introduced: 13 Oct 2016
CVE-2016-5425 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:9.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tomcat8 package and not the tomcat8 package as distributed by Debian.
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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5425
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93472
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40488/
- http://legalhackers.com/advisories/Tomcat-RedHat-Pkgs-Root-PrivEsc-Exploit-CVE-2016-5425.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/139041/Apache-Tomcat-8-7-6-Privilege-Escalation.html
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/6b414817c2b0bf351138911c8c922ec5dd577ebc0b9a7f42d705752d@%3Cissues.activemq.apache.org%3E
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/10/2
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2046.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036979
- http://legalhackers.com/advisories/Tomcat-RedHat-based-Root-Privilege-Escalation-Exploit.txt
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2046
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5425
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1362545
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/6b414817c2b0bf351138911c8c922ec5dd577ebc0b9a7f42d705752d%40%3Cissues.activemq.apache.org%3E
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40488