CVE-2016-1240

8 known exploits for CVE-2016-1240

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: Apache Tomcat, Ubuntu
Apache Tomcat: = 6.0, 7.0, 8.0

Fix: Available
CVSS 3.0: 7.8 HIGH
EPSS: 9.7% (95th percentile)
Weakness: CWE-20
NVD status: Modified
Published: 2016-10-03

CVE-2016-1240 at NVD

Authoritative description, scoring and affected products

Apache Tomcat On Ubuntu Log Init Privilege Escalation Exploit

2023-02-06 metasploitZDTRuby

Apache Tomcat On Ubuntu Log Init Privilege Escalation

2023-02-06 h00die, Dawid Golunski, metasploit.comPACKETSTORMRuby

Apache Tomcat packaging on Debian-based distros - Local Root Privilege Escalation

2016-10-04 RootSEEBUGC

Apache Tomcat 876 (Debian-Based Distros) - Local Privilege Escalation

2016-10-03 Dawid GolunskiEXPLOITPACKC

Apache Tomcat 8/7/6 (Debian-Based Distros) - Local Privilege Escalation

2016-10-03 Dawid GolunskiEXPLOITDBC

Apache Tomcat 8.0.36-2 Privilege Escalation

2016-10-02 Dawid GolunskiPACKETSTORMC

Apache Tomcat on Debian-Based Distros - Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

2016-10-01 Dawid GolunskiZDTC

Apache Tomcat on Ubuntu Log Init Privilege Escalation

2016-09-30 h00die, Dawid Golunski <dawid@legalhackers.com>METASPLOITRuby