Description
The postinst script in the tomcat6 package before 6.0.45+dfsg-1~deb7u4 on Debian wheezy, 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+deb7u8 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 obtain sensitive information or gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the Catalina localhost directory.
References (9)
Core 9
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3177-2
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94643
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3739
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3738
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/5
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/10
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3177-1
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180731-0002/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845393
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0007
EPSS Percentile
21.5%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-59
Status
published
Products (9)
apache/tomcat
6.0
apache/tomcat
7.0
apache/tomcat
8.0
canonical/ubuntu_linux
12.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
16.10
debian/debian_linux
7.0
debian/debian_linux
8.0
Published
Mar 23, 2017
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026