Upstream information

CVE-2016-1240 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.2
Vector AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.8
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1003877 [RESOLVED / INVALID]

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Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 tomcat Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 tomcat Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 tomcat Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 tomcat Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 tomcat Analysis
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 tomcat Analysis
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 tomcat Analysis
SUSE Manager Server 4.3 tomcat Analysis
Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-LTSS tomcat Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-LTSS tomcat Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4 tomcat Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Web and Scripting 15 SP4 tomcat Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL tomcat Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-LTSS tomcat Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 tomcat Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1 tomcat Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2 tomcat Analysis
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
HPE Helion OpenStack 8 tomcat Analysis
SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0 tomcat Analysis
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7 tomcat Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 tomcat6 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS tomcat6 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 tomcat6 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS tomcat6 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 tomcat Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-ESPOS tomcat Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS tomcat Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 tomcat Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-BCL tomcat Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-ESPOS tomcat Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS tomcat Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-ESPOS tomcat Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-LTSS tomcat Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-LTSS tomcat Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 tomcat Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 tomcat Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 tomcat Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 tomcat Analysis
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 tomcat Analysis
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 tomcat Analysis
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 tomcat Analysis
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 tomcat Analysis
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 tomcat Analysis


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Thu Sep 15 19:54:39 2016
CVE page last modified: Thu Feb 1 00:54:49 2024