### [CVE-2016-1240](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1240)
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### Description

The Tomcat init script in the tomcat7 package before 7.0.56-3+deb8u4 and tomcat8 package before 8.0.14-1+deb8u3 on Debian jessie and the tomcat6 and libtomcat6-java packages before 6.0.35-1ubuntu3.8 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, the tomcat7 and libtomcat7-java packages before 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.7 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and tomcat8 and libtomcat8-java packages before 8.0.32-1ubuntu1.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS allows local users with access to the tomcat account to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the Catalina log file, as demonstrated by /var/log/tomcat7/catalina.out.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://legalhackers.com/advisories/Tomcat-DebPkgs-Root-Privilege-Escalation-Exploit-CVE-2016-1240.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/170857/Apache-Tomcat-On-Ubuntu-Log-Init-Privilege-Escalation.html
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40450/

#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
- https://github.com/CVEDB/PoC-List
- https://github.com/CVEDB/awesome-cve-repo
- https://github.com/Naramsim/Offensive
- https://github.com/SexyBeast233/SecBooks
- https://github.com/mhe18/CVE_Project
- https://github.com/r0eXpeR/redteam_vul
- https://github.com/superfish9/pt
- https://github.com/woods-sega/woodswiki