CVE-2016-6325

high

Description

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.

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2045.html

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

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0457.html

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

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93478

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0455

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0456

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1367447

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2016-10-13

Updated: 2018-01-05

Type: CWE-264

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

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

Impact Score: 10

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: HIGH

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Impact Score: 5.9

Exploitability Score: 1.8

Severity: HIGH