Symlink Attack Affecting tomcat package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TOMCAT-2382434
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed12 Feb 2008
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Feb 2008

CVE-2008-0732  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for tomcat.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack. The init script for Apache Geronimo on SUSE Linux follows symlinks when performing a chown operation, which might allow local users to obtain access to unspecified files or directories.

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