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CVE-2016-8641

Published: Aug 1, 2018

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.0

6.7

MEDIUM

Description

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.

VendorProductVersions

Nagios Enterprises

nagios

affected
4.2.x

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-59

CVSS v3.0 Details

CVSS v3.0 Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

References

40774
exploit
x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
95121
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
GLSA-201702-26
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_GENTOO

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