Upstream information

CVE-2016-5425 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.2
Vector AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.8
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entries: 1003877 [RESOLVED / INVALID], 1172405 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Liberty Linux 7
  • tomcat >= 7.0.54-8.el7_2
  • tomcat-admin-webapps >= 7.0.54-8.el7_2
  • tomcat-docs-webapp >= 7.0.54-8.el7_2
  • tomcat-el-2.2-api >= 7.0.54-8.el7_2
  • tomcat-javadoc >= 7.0.54-8.el7_2
  • tomcat-jsp-2.2-api >= 7.0.54-8.el7_2
  • tomcat-jsvc >= 7.0.54-8.el7_2
  • tomcat-lib >= 7.0.54-8.el7_2
  • tomcat-servlet-3.0-api >= 7.0.54-8.el7_2
  • tomcat-webapps >= 7.0.54-8.el7_2
 Patchnames:
RHSA-2016:2046

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Mon Oct 10 10:30:10 2016
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 30 17:25:03 2023