Upstream information
Description
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.SUSE information
Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products
This issue is currently rated as having important severity.
| 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 |
| National Vulnerability Database | |
|---|---|
| Base Score | 7.8 |
| Vector | CVSS:3.0/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 |
Status of this issue by product and package
Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.
| Product(s) | Source package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Products under general support and receiving all security fixes. | ||
| SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 | tomcat | Analysis |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 | tomcat | Analysis |
| SUSE Manager Server 4.3 | tomcat | Analysis |
| Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes. | ||
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 | tomcat | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-LTSS | tomcat | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4 | tomcat | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Web and Scripting 15 SP4 | tomcat | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 | tomcat | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-LTSS | tomcat | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 | tomcat | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 | tomcat | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2 | tomcat | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 | tomcat | Analysis |
| Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore. | ||
| HPE Helion OpenStack 8 | tomcat | Analysis |
| SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0 | tomcat | Unsupported |
| SUSE Enterprise Storage 7 | tomcat | Unsupported |
| SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 | tomcat | Unsupported |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-LTSS | tomcat | Unsupported |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11 SP3 | tomcat6 | Unsupported |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 12 SP2-CLIENT | tomcat | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1-LTSS | tomcat6 | Unsupported |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 | tomcat6 | Unsupported |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2-LTSS | tomcat6 | Unsupported |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 | tomcat6 | Unsupported |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS | tomcat6 | Unsupported |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 | tomcat6 | Unsupported |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS | tomcat6 | Unsupported |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 | tomcat | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL | tomcat | Unsupported |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-ESPOS | tomcat | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS | tomcat | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 | tomcat | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-BCL | tomcat | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-ESPOS | tomcat | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS | tomcat | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-ESPOS | tomcat | Unsupported |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-LTSS | tomcat | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-LTSS | tomcat | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 | tomcat | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 | tomcat | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 | tomcat | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 | tomcat | Unsupported |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1 | tomcat | Unsupported |
| SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 | tomcat | Analysis |
| SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 | tomcat | Analysis |
| SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 | tomcat | Unsupported |
| SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 | tomcat | Analysis |
| SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 | tomcat | Unsupported |
SUSE Timeline for this CVE
CVE page created: Thu Sep 15 19:54:39 2016CVE page last modified: Fri Nov 1 12:08:32 2024