CVE-2016-5425

Pierluigi Paganini October 11, 2016
Hurry up,fix the CVE-2016-5425 privilege escalation flaw in Apache Tomcat

The security research Dawid Golunski reported a Root Privilege Escalation in the Apache Tomcat (RedHat-based distros) tracked as CVE-2016-5425. Apache Tomcat packages provided by default repositories of RedHat-based distributions (i.e. CentOS, RedHat, OracleLinux, Fedora, etc.) create a tmpfiles.d configuration file with insecure permissions. The configuration file /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tomcat.conf could be modified by a member of the tomcat group or by a malicious […]