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CVE-2020-8022

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-8022 describes an Incorrect Default Permissions vulnerability in the packaging of Tomcat on various SUSE Linux Enterprise and SUSE OpenStack Cloud products. This flaw allows a local attacker, already part of the 'tomcat' group, to escalate their privileges to root. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires low privileges, enabling high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 8.0.53-29.32.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 9.0.35-3.39.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 9.0.35-3.57.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.7HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.5
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.86%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
54.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0086 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 16,994 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.tomcat:tomcatFixed in: 8.0.53
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.apache.tomcat:tomcatFixed in: 9.0.35
susevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens)Fixed in: opendaylight

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-gc58-v8h3-x2grhigh

Incorrect Default Permissions in Apache Tomcat

Feb 9, 2022
redhatCVE-2020-8022Moderate

tomcat: /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tomcat.conf is group-writable

Jun 29, 2020

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00066.html
Mailing ListVendor Advisory
bugzilla.suse.com / show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r393d4f431683e99c839b4aed68f720b8583bca6c35cd84adccaa02be%40%3Cjava-dev.axis.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r5be80ba868a11a1f64e4922399f171b8619bca4bc2039f79cf913928%40%3Cjava-dev.axis.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/ra87ec20a0f4b226c81c7eed27e5d7433ccdc41e61a8da408a45f0fa1%40%3Cusers.tomcat.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/rf50d02409e5732c4ee37f19a193af171251a25a652599ce3c2bc69e7%40%3Cusers.tomcat.apache.org%3E