CVE-2016-9774

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9774
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-9774.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-9774
Related
Published
2017-03-23T16:59:00Z
Modified
2024-09-03T00:02:59Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
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Details

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

Affected packages

Git / github.com/apache/tomcat

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/apache/tomcat
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected