Improper Privilege Management The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package tomcat-webapps  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-TOMCATWEBAPPS-6483098
  • published23 Mar 2024
  • disclosed14 Feb 2024

Introduced: 14 Feb 2024

CVE-2024-22029  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:7.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tomcat-webapps package and not the tomcat-webapps package as distributed by RHEL.

Insecure permissions in the packaging of tomcat allow local users that win a race during package installation to escalate to root