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High severity7.8OSV Advisory· Published Mar 23, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-9774

CVE-2016-9774

Description

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.

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Affected products

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  • Apache/TomcatOSV4 versions
    7.0.0+ 3 more
    • (no CPE)range: 7.0.0
    • cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*+ 3 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • Debian/linux2 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • Ubuntu/tomcat6llm-create
    Range: before 6.0.35-1ubuntu3.9
  • Debian/tomcat7llm-fuzzy
    Range: before 7.0.28-4+deb7u8
  • Debian/tomcat8llm-fuzzy
    Range: before 8.0.14-1+deb8u5
  • Debian/tomcat6llm-fuzzy
    Range: before 6.0.45+dfsg-1~deb7u4

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