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CVE-2016-1240 PUBLISHED

The Tomcat init script in the tomcat7 package before 7.0.56-3+deb8u4 and tomcat8 package before 8.0.14-1+deb8u3 on Debian jessie and the tomcat6 and libtomcat6-java packages before 6.0.35-1ubuntu3.8 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, the tomcat7 and libtomcat7-java packages before 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.7 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and tomcat8 and libtomcat8-java packages before 8.0.32-1ubuntu1.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS allows local users with access to the tomcat account to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the Catalina log file, as demonstrated by /var/log/tomcat7/catalina.out.

EPSS 18.36% · 95.2th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
18.36%
95.2th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:16.04:LTStomcat88.0.28-1, 8.0.26-1, 0
Ubuntu:14.04:LTStomcat60, 6.0.37-1, 6.0.39-1
Ubuntu:16.04:LTStomcat66.0.45+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1, 0, 6.0.41-4
Ubuntu:14.04:LTStomcat77.0.52-1ubuntu0.6, 7.0.50-1, 7.0.47-1
Ubuntu:16.04:LTStomcat70, 7.0.64-1, 7.0.68-1

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