Security Advisory
CVE-2016-5425
7.8
HIGH
Vulnerability 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.
Published Date
October 13, 2016
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory