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CVE-2016-1240
Date: October 2, 2016
The Tomcat init script in the tomcat7 package before 7.0.56-3+deb8u4 and tomcat8 package before 8.0.14-1+deb8u3 on Debian jessie and the tomcat6 and libtomcat6-java packages before 6.0.35-1ubuntu3.8 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, the tomcat7 and libtomcat7-java packages before 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.7 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and tomcat8 and libtomcat8-java packages before 8.0.32-1ubuntu1.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS allows local users with access to the tomcat account to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the Catalina log file, as demonstrated by /var/log/tomcat7/catalina.out.
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Input Validation
CWE-20CVSS v3.1
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Attack Vector (AV): | LOCAL |
Attack Complexity (AC): | LOW |
Privileges Required (PR): | LOW |
User Interaction (UI): | NONE |
Scope (S): | UNCHANGED |
Confidentiality (C): | HIGH |
Integrity (I): | HIGH |
Availability (A): | HIGH |
CVSS v2
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Access Vector (AV): | LOCAL |
Access Complexity (AC): | LOW |
Authentication (AU): | NONE |
Confidentiality (C): | COMPLETE |
Integrity (I): | COMPLETE |
Availability (A): | COMPLETE |
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