Weak Permissions in Tomcat Package on RHEL and JBoss Web Server: Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

CVE-2016-6325 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

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