CVE-2016-6325 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

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

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8