{"id":"CVE-2016-9774","details":"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.","modified":"2026-04-11T12:03:23.099228Z","published":"2017-03-23T16:59:00.293Z","database_specific":{"unresolved_ranges":[{"source":"CPE_FIELD","cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","extracted_events":[{"last_affected":"6.0"}]},{"source":"CPE_FIELD","cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","extracted_events":[{"last_affected":"8.0"}]},{"source":"CPE_FIELD","cpe":"cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*","extracted_events":[{"last_affected":"12.04"}]},{"source":"CPE_FIELD","cpe":"cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*","extracted_events":[{"last_affected":"14.04"}]},{"source":"CPE_FIELD","cpe":"cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*","extracted_events":[{"last_affected":"16.04"}]},{"source":"CPE_FIELD","cpe":"cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","extracted_events":[{"last_affected":"16.10"}]},{"source":"CPE_FIELD","cpe":"cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","extracted_events":[{"last_affected":"8.0"}]}]},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3738"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3739"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/10"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/5"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94643"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3177-1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3177-2"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845393"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180731-0002/"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/apache/tomcat","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"e498667bd7811e846771a852b16ce9f1e524b81b"}],"database_specific":{"source":"CPE_FIELD","cpe":["cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:apache:tomcat:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"],"extracted_events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"7.0"}]}}],"versions":["7.0.0"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-9774.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}