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prionPRIOn knowledge basePRION:CVE-2016-1240
HistoryOct 03, 2016 - 3:59 p.m.

Design/Logic Flaw

2016-10-0315:59:00
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6

6.7 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

9.8%

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.

CPENameOperatorVersion
tomcateq6.0
tomcateq7.0
tomcateq8.0
tomcateq7.0
tomcateq8.0