CVE-2007-5342

Tomcat vulnerability

CVSS

6.4

EPSS

5.2%

EPSS pct

92th

Exploited

No known

The default catalina.policy in the JULI logging component in Apache Tomcat 5.5.9 through 5.5.25 and 6.0.0 through 6.0.15 does not restrict certain permissions for web applications, which allows attackers to modify logging configuration options and overwrite arbitrary files, as demonstrated by changing the (1) level, (2) directory, and (3) prefix attributes in the org.apache.juli.FileHandler handler.

Affected vendor

Apache

Affected product

Tomcat

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-264 — Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

Published

2007-12-27

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 5.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

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