CVE-2011-2729

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-08-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

native/unix/native/jsvc-unix.c in jsvc in the Daemon component 1.0.3 through 1.0.6 in Apache Commons, as used in Apache Tomcat 5.5.32 through 5.5.33, 6.0.30 through 6.0.32, and 7.0.x before 7.0.20 on Linux, does not drop capabilities, which allows remote attackers to bypass read permissions for files via a request to an application.

Affected products

Apache Commons Daemon: 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.0.6
Apache Tomcat: 5.5.32, 5.5.33, 6.0.30, 6.0.31, 6.0.32, 7.0.0 (+18)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-09/msg00024.html
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/commons-dev/201108.mbox/%3C4E451B2B.9090108%40apache.org%3E
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/tomcat-announce/201108.mbox/%3C4E45221D.1020306%40apache.org%3E
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=132215163318824&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133469267822771&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=136485229118404&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139344343412337&w=2
http://people.apache.org/~markt/patches/2011-08-12-cve2011-2729-tc5.patch
http://secunia.com/advisories/46030
http://secunia.com/advisories/57126
http://securitytracker.com/id?1025925
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1152701

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