CVE-2016-1240Not scoredCWE-20

CVE-2016-1240: Apache Tomcat vulnerability

Apache · Tomcat

Vendor fix available · Affected: Apache Tomcat · Exploitation: possible (1 to 10%)

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9.8%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days

95th percentile

050100

Higher than 95% of scored CVEs

Not scored yet. The CVE record carries no CVSS score.

DescriptionCVE.org

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.

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Exploitation: Possible (1 to 10%). EPSS between 1% and 10%.
CISA KEV: Not listed
Public check: No public nuclei template
Weakness: Improper Input Validation · Input Validation and Logic
Vendor: Apache
Published: October 2016
Band: Possible (1 to 10%), October 2016

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References

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