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CVE-2016-5425
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-10-13T14:59:07.517 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:49:23.450

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.

Affected products

apache — tomcat

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References

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