CVE-2016-9774 (GCVE-0-2016-9774)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-03-23 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 02:59
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The postinst script in the tomcat6 package before 6.0.45+dfsg-1~deb7u4 on Debian wheezy, before 6.0.35-1ubuntu3.9 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS; the tomcat7 package before 7.0.28-4+deb7u8 on Debian wheezy, before 7.0.56-3+deb8u6 on Debian jessie, before 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.8 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS, and 16.10; and the tomcat8 package before 8.0.14-1+deb8u5 on Debian jessie, before 8.0.32-1ubuntu1.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, before 8.0.37-1ubuntu0.1 on Ubuntu 16.10, and before 8.0.38-2ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 17.04 might allow local users with access to the tomcat account to obtain sensitive information or gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the Catalina localhost directory.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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|---|---|
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3177-2 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94643 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3739 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN |
| http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3738 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/5 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/1… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3177-1 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
| https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2018073… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Date Public
2016-11-23 00:00
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.