CVE-2016-9774

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9774
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-9774.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-9774
Downstream
Published
2017-03-23T16:59:00.293Z
Modified
2026-04-11T12:03:23.099228Z
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 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.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "6.0"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "12.04"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "14.04"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "16.04"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "16.10"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
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
e498667bd7811e846771a852b16ce9f1e524b81b
Database specific 
{
    "source": "CPE_FIELD",
    "cpe": [
        "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "7.0"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

7.*
7.0.0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-9774.json"