CVE-2016-5425

high

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.

References

Advisories
More

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40488/

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036979

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93472

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/10/2

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2046.html

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/6b414817c2b0bf351138911c8c922ec5dd577ebc0b9a7f42d705752d%40%3Cissues.activemq.apache.org%3E

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2016-6370

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/139041/Apache-Tomcat-8-7-6-Privilege-Escalation.html

http://legalhackers.com/advisories/Tomcat-RedHat-Pkgs-Root-PrivEsc-Exploit-CVE-2016-5425.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-10-13

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.14913