CVE-2020-8022 json
User-writeable configuration file /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tomcat.conf allows for escalation of priviliges
published 6y ago modified last mo. also BIT-tomcat-2020-8022 , EUVD-2022-1008 , GHSA-gc58-v8h3-x2gr
- cvss
- 7.7
- version 3.1, CNA
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.9%
- EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 58%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
A Incorrect Default Permissions vulnerability in the packaging of tomcat on SUSE Enterprise Storage 5, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-BCL, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-LTSS, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP3, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15, SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7, SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8, SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 allows local attackers to escalate from group tomcat to root. This issue affects: SUSE Enterprise Storage 5 tomcat versions prior to 8.0.53-29.32.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL tomcat versions prior to 8.0.53-29.32.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS tomcat versions prior to 8.0.53-29.32.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-BCL tomcat versions prior to 8.0.53-29.32.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-LTSS tomcat versions prior to 8.0.53-29.32.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4 tomcat versions prior to 9.0.35-3.39.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 tomcat versions prior to 9.0.35-3.39.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS tomcat versions prior to 9.0.35-3.57.3. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2 tomcat versions prior to 8.0.53-29.32.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP3 tomcat versions prior to 8.0.53-29.32.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15 tomcat versions prior to 9.0.35-3.57.3. SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 tomcat versions prior to 8.0.53-29.32.1. SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 tomcat versions prior to 8.0.53-29.32.1. SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 tomcat versions prior to 8.0.53-29.32.1.
Patch / fix
- bitnami tomcat 9.0.35-3.57.3
- SUSE SUSE Enterprise Storage 5 8.0.53-29.32.1
- SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL 8.0.53-29.32.1
- SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS 8.0.53-29.32.1
- SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-BCL 8.0.53-29.32.1
- SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-LTSS 8.0.53-29.32.1
- SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4 9.0.35-3.39.1
- SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 9.0.35-3.39.1
- SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS 9.0.35-3.57.3
- SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2 8.0.53-29.32.1
- SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP3 8.0.53-29.32.1
- SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15 9.0.35-3.57.3
- SUSE SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 8.0.53-29.32.1
- SUSE SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 8.0.53-29.32.1
- SUSE SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 8.0.53-29.32.1
- tomcat SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES 12 SP3-LTSS +8 more 8.0.53-29.32.1
- tomcat SLE Module for Web and Scripting 15 SP1 9.0.35-4.35.1
- tomcat SLES for SAP 15, SLES 15-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15-LTSS +1 more 9.0.35-3.57.3
- tomcat SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES for SAP 12 SP4, SLES 12 SP5 +1 more 9.0.35-3.39.1
suse advisories SUSE-SU-2020:1791-1SUSE-SU-2020:1790-1SUSE-SU-2020:1789-1SUSE-SU-2020:1788-1
- tomcat openSUSE Leap 15.1 9.0.35-lp151.3.21.1
opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2020:0911-1
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red hat product security vex CVE-2020-8022 updated cvss 7.7
tomcat: /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tomcat.conf is group-writable
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Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 jbossweb jbossweb Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 tomcat Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) opendaylightaffected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
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Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) opendaylightaffected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
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Red Hat Decision Manager 7 tomcat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 tomcat6, tomcat6-lib, tomcat6-log4j, tomcat6-javadoc, tomcat6-webapps, tomcat6-el-2.1-api, +4 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 tomcat, tomcat-lib, tomcat-jsvc, tomcat-javadoc, tomcat-webapps, tomcat-el-2.2-api, +4 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 pki-servlet-engine, pki-servlet-4.0-api Red Hat Fuse 7 tomcat Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 tomcatnot affected: vulnerable code not present
+3 more productsfewer
Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5 tomcat Red Hat Process Automation 7 tomcat Red Hat support for Spring Boot tomcat
Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf
CISA SSVC
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- total
- Assessed
- last mo.
Exploit prediction
0.86% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 58% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).
Exploits and checks
- bugzilla.suse.com https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172405 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
CVSS scores
| assigned by | version | score | vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNA | 3.1 | 7.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVD | 3.1 | 7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVD | 2.0 | 7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
| OSV | 3.1 | 7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
Affected packages
| ecosystem | package | affected | fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| bitnami | tomcat | <9.0.35-3.57.3 |
9.0.35-3.57.3 |
Affected products
- SUSE SUSE Enterprise Storage 5
- SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL
- SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS
- SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-BCL
- SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-LTSS
- SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4
- SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5
- SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS
- SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2
- SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP3
- SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15
- SUSE SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7
- SUSE SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8
- SUSE SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8
Classification
- Weakness
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- CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions
References
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bugzilla.suse.com
/show_bug.cgi?id=1172405
exploit, issue-tracking, vendor-advisory, web
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lists.opensuse.org
/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00066.html
vendor-advisory, mailing-list, web
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lists.apache.org
/thread.html/rf50d02409e5732c4ee37f19a193af171251a25a652599ce3c2bc69e7%40%3Cusers.tomcat.apache.org%3E
mailing-list, web
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lists.apache.org
/thread.html/ra87ec20a0f4b226c81c7eed27e5d7433ccdc41e61a8da408a45f0fa1%40%3Cusers.tomcat.apache.org%3E
mailing-list, web
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lists.apache.org
/thread.html/r5be80ba868a11a1f64e4922399f171b8619bca4bc2039f79cf913928%40%3Cjava-dev.axis.apache.org%3E
mailing-list, web
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lists.apache.org
/thread.html/r393d4f431683e99c839b4aed68f720b8583bca6c35cd84adccaa02be%40%3Cjava-dev.axis.apache.org%3E
mailing-list, web
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nvd.nist.gov
/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8022
web
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2020-8022
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-gc58-v8h3-x2gr
- NVD CVE-2020-8022
- OSV BIT-tomcat-2020-8022
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