CVE-2016-5425

38Vexday Risk Score

Patch soon. It has a working public exploit.

ssvc Attendepss 3.8%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDOct 13

1st PoCOct 10

metasploitOct 10

exploitation probability

3.8%top 11% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

3 public exploit(s)

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.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 3

exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/40488unverified cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/40488/unverified cve_referencepacketstormsecurity.com/files/139041/Apache-Tomcat-8-7-6-Privilege-Escalation.htmlunverified

⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.

References

http://legalhackers.com/advisories/Tomcat-RedHat-Pkgs-Root-PrivEsc-Exploit-CVE-2016-5425.html http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/139041/Apache-Tomcat-8-7-6-Privilege-Escalation.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2046.html https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/6b414817c2b0bf351138911c8c922ec5dd577ebc0b9a7f42d705752d%40%3Cissues.activemq.apache.org%3E https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40488/https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/10/2 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93472 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036979