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.
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EUVD-2016-7252 | 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. |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-06T01:29:18.293Z
Reserved: 2016-07-26T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2016-6325
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2016-10-13T14:59:09.127
Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837
Link: CVE-2016-6325
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