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HistoryOct 20, 2016 - 12:00 a.m.

K61414056 : Apache Tomcat vulnerability CVE-2016-5425

2016-10-2000:00:00
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7.7 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

48.1%

Security Advisory 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. (CVE-2016-5425)
Impact
There is no impact; F5 products are not affected by this vulnerability.