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CVE-2013-1976

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-1976 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the RPM distributions of Tomcat (versions 5, 6, and 7) for JBoss Enterprise Web Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This flaw allows local users to arbitrarily change file ownership through a symlink attack on specific log files. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.9, indicating high severity due to its local attack vector, medium attack complexity, and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_web_server:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_web_server:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.9MEDIUM

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
29.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0037 is in the 45th percentile among its peer group of 1,595 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (11)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 for RHEL 6Fixed in: tomcat7-0:7.0.30-7_patch_03.ep6.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: tomcat5-0:5.5.23-0jpp.40.el5_9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: tomcat6-0:6.0.24-55.el6_4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 1 for RHEL 5Fixed in: tomcat5-0:5.5.33-33_patch_09.ep5.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 1 for RHEL 5Fixed in: tomcat6-0:6.0.32-32_patch_09.ep5.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: tomcat5-0:5.5.33-36_patch_09.ep5.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 1 for RHEL 6Fixed in: tomcat6-0:6.0.32-35_patch_09.ep5.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 for RHEL 5Fixed in: tomcat6-0:6.0.35-12_patch_07.ep6.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 for RHEL 5Fixed in: tomcat7-0:7.0.30-5_patch_03.ep6.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 for RHEL 6Fixed in: tomcat6-0:6.0.35-33_patch_07.ep6.el6
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redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-1976Important

tomcat: Improper TOMCAT_LOG management in init script (DoS, ACE)

May 28, 2013

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00013.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0869.html
Vendor Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0870.html
Vendor Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0871.html
Vendor Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0872.html
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Vendor Advisory