fkie_cve-2016-1240
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2016-10-03 15:59
Modified
2025-04-12 10:46
Severity ?
Summary
The Tomcat init script in the tomcat7 package before 7.0.56-3+deb8u4 and tomcat8 package before 8.0.14-1+deb8u3 on Debian jessie and the tomcat6 and libtomcat6-java packages before 6.0.35-1ubuntu3.8 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, the tomcat7 and libtomcat7-java packages before 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.7 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and tomcat8 and libtomcat8-java packages before 8.0.32-1ubuntu1.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS allows local users with access to the tomcat account to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the Catalina log file, as demonstrated by /var/log/tomcat7/catalina.out.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| apache | tomcat | 6.0 | |
| apache | tomcat | 7.0 | |
| apache | tomcat | 8.0 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 12.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 14.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 16.04 | |
| apache | tomcat | 7.0 | |
| apache | tomcat | 8.0 | |
| debian | debian_linux | 8.0 |
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