VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2004-1452
CVSS score7.2 HIGH
EPSS probability0.44%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2004-12-31
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
Tomcat before 5.0.27-r3 in Gentoo Linux sets the default permissions on the init scripts as tomcat:tomcat, but executes the scripts with root privileges, which could allow local users in the tomcat group to execute arbitrary commands as root by modifying the scripts.