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 EUVD 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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Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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{'score': 0.00069}

epss

{'score': 0.00093}


cve-icon MITRE

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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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-10-13T14:59:09.127

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

Link: CVE-2016-6325

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

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

Links: CVE-2016-6325 - Bugzilla

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