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Incorrect Default Permissions

CVE-2016-5425

High
7.8/10

Summary

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.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-276 - Incorrect Default Permissions

During installation, installed file permissions are set to allow anyone to modify those files.

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  • Published