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CVE-2016-8641

A privilege escalation vulnerability was found in nagios 4.2.x that occurs in daemon-init.in when creating necessary fil

A privilege escalation vulnerability was found in nagios 4.2.x that occurs in daemon-init.in when creating necessary files and insecurely changing the ownership afterwards. It's possible for the local attacker to create symbolic links before the files are to be created and possibly escalating the privileges with the ownership change.

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.7 EPSS 0.00907
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Weakness Classification

CWE-59Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
CWE-59Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
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Affected Products & Versions

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nagiosall versions
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Public Exploits & PoCs

2
localNagios 4.2.2 - Local Privilege Escalationverified
pocwww.exploit-db.com · 40774www.exploit-db.com
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Scoring & Timeline

6.7
MEDIUM · CVSS v3.0 · secalert@redhat.com
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Attack Vector
Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
User Interaction
None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD01 Aug 2018 · 02:29 PM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Vendor Advisories

3
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:11073-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2018:3620-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2018:3240-1
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References & Sources

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Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95121Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8641Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/f2ed227673d3b2da643eb5cad26b2d87674f28c1.patchPatchThird Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-26Third Party Advisory
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