{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2016-5425 exists.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"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."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2016-5425 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: 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.\nExploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2016-5425 exists.\n\nAffected product: Apache Tomcat. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-5425/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-5425/index.md)","id":"CVE-2016-5425","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-5425/index.md","name":"CVE-2016-5425","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-c7fc-mp9g-99j3","MINI-6q24-jvh2-3jpg","MINI-9jqx-pp7p-8523","MINI-w336-mpmj-v3fh"],"analysis":{"component_type":"server_software","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Tomcat server","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Local users in the tomcat group can gain root privileges due to weak file permissions on the Tomcat tmpfiles configuration.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"privilege_escalation"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"redhat","cpe":[{"product":"tomcat","vendor":"apache"}],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-276","name":"Incorrect Default Permissions"}],"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.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":1,"first_seen":"2016-10-10","github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":1,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2016-10-10","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"40488","stars":null,"title":"Apache Tomcat 8/7/6 (RedHat Based Distros) - Local Privilege Escalation"},{"date":"2016-10-10","kind":"metasploit","ref":"exploit/linux/local/tomcat_rhel_based_temp_priv_esc","stars":null,"title":"Apache Tomcat on RedHat Based Systems Insecure Temp Config Privilege Escalation"}],"tier":"weaponised"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-5425","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"apache:tomcat","products":["apache:tomcat"],"type":"privilege_escalation","year":"2016"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":10,"next":{"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-5426"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Code injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-5424"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2016-10-13","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Apache Tomcat Path Equivalence","id":"CVE-2025-24813","kev_date_added":"2025-04-01","published":"2025-03-10"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Apache Tomcat Remote Code Execution","id":"CVE-2016-8735","kev_date_added":"2023-05-12","published":"2017-04-06"},{"cvss_score":8.1,"headline":"Apache Tomcat Remote Code Execution","id":"CVE-2017-12617","kev_date_added":"2022-03-25","published":"2017-10-03"},{"cvss_score":8.1,"headline":"Apache Tomcat on Windows Remote Code Execution","id":"CVE-2017-12615","kev_date_added":"2022-03-25","published":"2017-09-19"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Apache Tomcat Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data","id":"CVE-2026-34486","kev_date_added":"2026-08-04","published":"2026-04-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Apache Tomcat: HTTP/2 no-authority bypass of strict SNI validation - CVE-2026-32990 fix incomplete","id":"CVE-2026-65637","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-08-25"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Apache Tomcat: Limited replay attack possible with DIGEST authentication","id":"CVE-2026-65905","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-08-25"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"BSD-3-Clause","name":"Metasploit"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"GPL-2.0-or-later","name":"Exploit-DB"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-06","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Local users in the tomcat group can gain root privileges due to weak file permissions on the Tomcat tmpfiles configuration.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-5425/"}