CVE-2016-9775

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9775
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-9775.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-9775
Downstream
Published
2017-03-23T16:59:00.357Z
Modified
2026-05-15T12:03:01.271958103Z
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 postrm script in the tomcat6 package before 6.0.45+dfsg-1~deb7u3 on Debian wheezy, before 6.0.45+dfsg-1~deb8u1 on Debian jessie, before 6.0.35-1ubuntu3.9 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS; the tomcat7 package before 7.0.28-4+deb7u7 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 gain root privileges via a setgid program in the Catalina directory, as demonstrated by /etc/tomcat8/Catalina/attack.

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"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "vendor_product": "canonical:ubuntu_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "12.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "14.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "16.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "16.10"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "7.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages