CVE-2004-1452 (GCVE-0-2004-1452)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2005-02-13 05:00
Modified
2024-08-08 00:53
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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