The Tomcat package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7, Fedora, CentOS, Oracle Linux, and possibly other Linux distributions uses weak permissions for /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tomcat.conf, which allows local users to gain root privileges by leveraging membership in the tomcat group.
Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5425
Reference (s):
- BID:93472
- URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93472
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html
- EXPLOIT-DB:40488
- URL: https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40488/