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CVE-2013-1976

Public on 2013-06-11
Modified on 2014-09-15
Description

The (1) tomcat5, (2) tomcat6, and (3) tomcat7 init scripts, as used in the RPM distribution of Tomcat for JBoss Enterprise Web Server 1.0.2 and 2.0.0, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6, allow local users to change the ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (a) tomcat5-initd.log, (b) tomcat6-initd.log, (c) catalina.out, or (d) tomcat7-initd.log.

Severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
6.9
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 tomcat6 2013-06-11 22:44 ALAS-2013-196

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 6.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
NVD CVSSv2 6.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C