CVE-2016-1240

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1240
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-1240.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-1240
Downstream
Published
2016-10-03T15:59:00.207Z
Modified
2026-05-15T12:00:52.567717577Z
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
[none]
Details

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.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "vendor_product": "apache:tomcat",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "6.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages