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.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
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Debian | 9 | all | tomcat7 | < 7.0.75-1 | tomcat7_7.0.75-1_all.deb |
Debian | 9 | all | tomcat8 | < 8.5.54-0+deb9u1 | tomcat8_8.5.54-0+deb9u1_all.deb |