Security Advisory

CVE-2004-1452

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2005-02-13 05:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-08 00:53:23
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

Tomcat before 5.0.27-r3 in Gentoo Linux sets the default permissions on the init scripts as tomcat:tomcat, but executes the scripts with root privileges, which could allow local users in the tomcat group to execute arbitrary commands as root by modifying the scripts.