VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2016-5425

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability3.78%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2016-10-13
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

The Tomcat package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7, Fedora, CentOS, Oracle Linux, and possibly other Linux distributions uses weak permissions for /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tomcat.conf, which allows local users to gain root privileges by leveraging membership in the tomcat group.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-276: Incorrect Default Permissions

Primary references