$ cve CVE-2016-1240 JSON

CVE-2016-1240 EXPLOIT

7.8

HIGH · CVSS 3.0 · EPSS 9.8% (pctl 95)

Patch early

A public exploit exists.

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.

Scoring

CVSS	7.8 (HIGH, v3.0)
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS	9.78% — more likely to be exploited than 95% of all CVEs
Weakness	CWE-20
On CISA KEV	no
Public exploit	yes
Published	2016-10-03
Last modified	2026-06-17

Affected (3)

Vendor	Product
apache	tomcat
canonical	ubuntu linux
debian	debian linux

Public exploits

Source	Title	Date
exploit-db	Apache Tomcat 8/7/6 (Debian-Based Distros) - Local Privilege Escalation	2016-10-03

References

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