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CVE-2016-1240

CVE-2016-1240

EPSS 9.8%
Vexday Risk Score
38Attention
SSVC decision (CISA)
Attend
PoC available → attend closely
Exploit maturity
Functional exploit
Popular PoC on GitHub (1 stars) — exploitation code widely available.
CVSS —EPSS 9.8%KEV nãoPoC públicaNuclei —Metasploit simPatch referenciado
Lifecycle
30 Sep 2016Metasploit module available
03 Oct 2016Published on NVD
03 Oct 2016Public PoC
Weaponization speed
same dayto first PoC
Weaponized quickly — attackers prioritized this vulnerability. Patch urgently.
Recommendation: Plan a near-term fix — a public PoC already exists.
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.
Affected products
n/a · n/a
public PoCs found — 5
githubgithub.com/Naramsim/Offensive★ 1githubgithub.com/mhe18/CVE_Project★ 0cve_referencepacketstormsecurity.com/files/170857/Apache-Tomcat-On-Ubuntu-Log-Init-Privilege-Escalation.htmlunverifiedcve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/40450/unverifiedexploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/40450unverified
⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
http://legalhackers.com/advisories/Tomcat-DebPkgs-Root-Privilege-Escalation-Exploit-CVE-2016-1240.htmlhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/170857/Apache-Tomcat-On-Ubuntu-Log-Init-Privilege-Escalation.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0457.htmlhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0455https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0456https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-09https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180731-0002/https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40450/http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3669http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3670http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/539519/100/0/threadedhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93263