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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T01:00:59.894Z

Reserved: 2016-06-10T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-5425

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-10-13T14:59:07.517

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-5425

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2016-10-10T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-5425 - Bugzilla

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