CVE-2013-1976

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-07-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

The (1) tomcat5, (2) tomcat6, and (3) tomcat7 init scripts, as used in the RPM distribution of Tomcat for JBoss Enterprise Web Server 1.0.2 and 2.0.0, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6, allow local users to change the ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (a) tomcat5-initd.log, (b) tomcat6-initd.log, (c) catalina.out, or (d) tomcat7-initd.log.

Affected products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 5, 6.0
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server: 1.0.2, 2.0.0

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00013.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0869.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0870.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0871.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0872.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=927622
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00013.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0869.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0870.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0871.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0872.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=927622

Get alerted when CVE-2013-1976 or the next vulnerability affects your stack