It was reported that the Tomcat init script performed unsafe file handling, which could result in local privilege escalation.
Find out more about CVE-2016-1240 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
Base Score | 6.9 |
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Base Metrics | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
Access Vector | Local |
Access Complexity | Medium |
Authentication | None |
Confidentiality Impact | Complete |
Integrity Impact | Complete |
Availability Impact | Complete |
CVSS3 Base Score | 7 |
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CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
Attack Vector | Local |
Attack Complexity | High |
Privileges Required | Low |
User Interaction | None |
Scope | Unchanged |
Confidentiality | High |
Integrity Impact | High |
Availability Impact | High |
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Platform | Errata | Release Date |
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Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1 for RHEL 7 | RHSA-2017:0456 | 2017-03-07 |
Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1 | RHSA-2017:0457 | 2017-03-07 |
Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1 for RHEL 6 | RHSA-2017:0455 | 2017-03-07 |
Platform | Package | State |
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Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux | rh-java-common-tomcat | Not affected |
Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.0 | tomcat7 | Fix deferred |
Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.0 | tomcat8 | Fix deferred |
Red Hat JBoss Portal Platform 6 | jbossweb | Not affected |
Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3 | jbossweb | Not affected |
Red Hat JBoss EWS 2 | tomcat7 | Will not fix |
Red Hat JBoss EWS 2 | tomcat6 | Will not fix |
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 | Scripts | Not affected |
Red Hat JBoss EAP 6 | jbossweb | Not affected |
Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 | jbossweb | Not affected |
Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6 | jbossweb | Not affected |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | tomcat | Not affected |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | tomcat6 | Not affected |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | tomcat5 | Not affected |