Apache Tomcat Permissions Privileges and Access Controls Vulnerability - CVE-2016-9775 - Vulnerability Database

Apache Tomcat Permissions Privileges and Access Controls Vulnerability - CVE-2016-9775

High

Reference: CVE-2016-9775

NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9775

Title: Apache Tomcat Permissions Privileges and Access Controls Vulnerability

Overview:

The postrm script in the tomcat6 package before 6.0.45dfsg-1deb7u3 on Debian wheezy before 6.0.45dfsg-1deb8u1 on Debian jessie before 6.0.35-1ubuntu3.9 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS the tomcat7 package before 7.0.28-4deb7u7 on Debian wheezy before 7.0.56-3deb8u6 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 8.0.14-1deb8u5 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.