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CVE-2016-6325
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-10-13T14:59:09.127 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:50:49.953

Summary

The Tomcat package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 through 7, JBoss Web Server 3.0, and JBoss EWS 2 uses weak permissions for (1) /etc/sysconfig/tomcat and (2) /etc/tomcat/tomcat.conf, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging membership in the tomcat group.

Affected products

apache — tomcat

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References

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