On 14/10/2011 16:31, Mark Thomas wrote:
> On 14/10/2011 16:15, Mark H. Wood wrote:
>> This I can agree with.  They don't allow application managers
>> access to Tomcat's config., but anyone can drop stuff into
>> /etc/init.d, whence it will run as root?  Really?  Something is not
>> right here.

+1  These support guys need firing...

> Is it just me, or is the simple privilege escalation attack that this
> makes possible the quickest way to solve this? :) Granted, it isn't
> the best way to solve it but boy would I be tempted in your shoes.

Yes, quite.


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