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CVE-2013-1976

N/A
Published: July 9, 2013 at 05:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:52 PM UTC
2 products affected across 1 vendorEnterprise LinuxJBoss Enterprise Web Server

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

References (6)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00013.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0869.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0870.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0871.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0872.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=927622

CVSS

6.9MEDIUM[email protected]
Confidentiality
COMPLETE
Integrity
COMPLETE
Availability
COMPLETE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-59

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