CVE-2016-5425 Privilege escalation in n/a
Local users in the tomcat group can gain root privileges due to weak file permissions on the Tomcat tmpfiles configuration.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2016-5425?
CVE-2016-5425 is a high-severity vulnerability in Apache Tomcat, published on 13 Oct 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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: CWE-276
Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-5425?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Apache Tomcat.
How do I fix CVE-2016-5425?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2016-5425 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2016-5425 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Metasploit module and 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Other vulnerabilities in Apache Tomcat
Sources
Also known as GHSA-c7fc-mp9g-99j3, MINI-6q24-jvh2-3jpg, MINI-9jqx-pp7p-8523, MINI-w336-mpmj-v3fh.