Security Advisory

CVE-2016-5425

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-10-13 14:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 01:00:59
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.