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CVE-2016-6325

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-6325 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the Tomcat package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5-7, JBoss Web Server 3.0, and JBoss EWS 2. The vulnerability stems from weak permissions on /etc/sysconfig/tomcat and /etc/tomcat/tomcat.conf, allowing local users who are members of the 'tomcat' group to gain elevated privileges. With a CVSS v3 score of 7.8 (HIGH), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and can lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.69%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
49.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0069 is in the 86th 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 (25)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: tomcat-vault-0:1.0.8-9.Final_redhat_2.1.ep7.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: tomcat6-0:6.0.24-98.el6_8
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: tomcat-0:7.0.54-8.el7_2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: hibernate4-eap6-0:4.2.23-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-0:1-3.jbcs.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-apache-commons-daemon-0:1.0.15-1.redhat_2.1.jbcs.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-apache-commons-daemon-jsvc-1:1.0.15-17.redhat_2.jbcs.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: mod_cluster-0:1.3.5-2.Final_redhat_2.1.ep7.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: tomcat7-0:7.0.70-16.ep7.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: tomcat8-0:8.0.36-17.ep7.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: tomcat-native-0:1.2.8-9.redhat_9.ep7.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: tomcat-vault-0:1.0.8-9.Final_redhat_2.1.ep7.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: hibernate4-eap6-0:4.2.23-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-0:1-3.jbcs.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-apache-commons-daemon-0:1.0.15-1.redhat_2.1.jbcs.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: jbcs-httpd24-apache-commons-daemon-jsvc-1:1.0.15-17.redhat_2.jbcs.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: mod_cluster-0:1.3.5-2.Final_redhat_2.1.ep7.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: tomcat7-0:7.0.70-16.ep7.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: tomcat8-0:8.0.36-17.ep7.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 7Fixed in: tomcat-native-0:1.2.8-9.redhat_9.ep7.el7
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redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 3Fixed in: tomcat
redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
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redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2Fixed in: tomcat
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: tomcat5

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-6325Important

tomcat: tomcat writable config files allow privilege escalation

Oct 10, 2016

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-2045.html
Vendor Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-2046.html
Vendor Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0457.html
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:0455
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:0456
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingVDB EntryVendor Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html
securityfocus.com / bid/93478