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Vulnerability Intelligence Report

CVE-2016-9775

The postrm script in the tomcat6 package before 6.0.45+dfsg-1~deb7u3 on Debian wheezy, before 6.0.45+dfsg-1~deb8u1 on Debian jessie, before 6.0.35-1ubuntu3.9 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS; the tomcat7 package before 7.0.28-4+deb7u7 on Debian wheezy, before 7.0.56-3+deb8u6 on Debian jessie, before 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.8 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS, and 16.10; and the tomcat8 package before 8.0.14-1+deb8u5 on Debian jessie, before 8.0.32-1ubuntu1.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, before 8.0.37-1ubuntu0.1 on Ubuntu 16.10, and before 8.0.38-2ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 17.04 might allow local users with access to the tomcat account to gain root privileges via a setgid program in the Catalina directory, as demonstrated by /etc/tomcat8/Catalina/attack.

No Active Exploit Signals
CVSS Base Score
7.8
HIGH
EPSS Probability:0.74%
Executive Threat Verdict
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Attack Surface
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Authentication
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Weaponization
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SSVC Action
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Affected Products & Versions

Vendor Product Affected Versions
debian debian_linux 7.0, 8.0
canonical ubuntu_linux 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 16.10
apache tomcat 6.0, 7.0, 8.0

References & Technical Advisories

No reference links found.

Threat Intelligence Signals

EPSS Score
0.742%

Identity & Timeline

StatusPUBLISHED
Assigning AuthorityRed Hat, Inc. · Vendor · USA
Reserved2016-12-02T00:00:00
Published2017-03-23T16:00:00
Patch Date2016-11-22
Last Updated2024-08-06T02:59:03

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