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CVE-2016-6325
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2016-10-13 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-264
Description
The Tomcat package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 through 7, JBoss Web Server 3.0, and JBoss EWS 2 uses weak permissions for (1) /etc/sysconfig/tomcat and (2) /etc/tomcat/tomcat.conf, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging membership in the tomcat group.
Affected products
- Apache Tomcat: all versions
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2045.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2046.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0457.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93478
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0455
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0456
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1367447
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2045.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2046.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0457.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html
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