CVE-2011-2729

jakarta-commons-daemon: jsvc does not drop capabilities allowing access to files and directories owned by the superuser

Published Aug 15, 2011 CVSS 2.0 · 5.0 Medium EPSS 7.2% KEV · Not listed
Description
native/unix/native/jsvc-unix.c in jsvc in the Daemon component 1.0.3 through 1.0.6 in Apache Commons, as used in Apache Tomcat 5.5.32 through 5.5.33, 6.0.30 through 6.0.32, and 7.0.x before 7.0.20 on Linux, does not drop capabilities, which allows remote attackers to bypass read permissions for files via a request to an application.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2011-2707 native/unix/native/jsvc-unix.c in jsvc in the Daemon component 1.0.3 through 1.0.6 in Apache Commons, as used in Apache Tomcat 5.5.32 through 5.5.33, 6.0.30 through 6.0.32, and 7.0.x before 7.0.20 on Linux, does not drop capabilities, which allows remote attackers to bypass read permissions for files via a request to an application.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1298-1 Apache Commons Daemon vulnerability
References
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http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-09/msg00024.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/commons-dev/201108.mbox/%3C4E451B2B.9090108%40apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/tomcat-announce/201108.mbox/%3C4E45221D.1020306%40apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=132215163318824&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133469267822771&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=136485229118404&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139344343412337&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://people.apache.org/~markt/patches/2011-08-12-cve2011-2729-tc5.patch cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/46030 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/57126 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securitytracker.com/id?1025925 cve-icon cve-icon
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1152701 cve-icon cve-icon
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1153379 cve-icon cve-icon
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1153824 cve-icon cve-icon
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1291.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1292.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/519263/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49143 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730400 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/69161 cve-icon cve-icon
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DAEMON-214 cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/06cfb634bc7bf37af7d8f760f118018746ad8efbd519c4b789ac9c2e%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8dcaf7c3894d66cb717646ea1504ea6e300021c85bb4e677dc16b1aa%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r3aacc40356defc3f248aa504b1e48e819dd0471a0a83349080c6bcbf%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r584a714f141eff7b1c358d4679288177bd4ca4558e9999d15867d4b5%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2729 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14743 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19450 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-2729 cve-icon
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_web_server:1
Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Aug 6, 2024, 11:08 PM
Reserved
Jul 11, 2011, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Aug 15, 2011, 9:55 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 11:31 PM
Severity
Important
Public date
Aug 12, 2011, 12:00 AM