fkie_cve-2016-5425
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2016-10-13 14:59
Modified
2025-04-12 10:46
Severity ?
Summary
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
Impacted products
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