Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2016-8641. PoCs published by Vincent Malguy.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit leverages a privilege escalation vulnerability in Nagios 4.2.2 and prior by manipulating symlinks to gain root access. It compiles a shared library to hijack the `geteuid` function, creating a SUID root shell.
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.
Exploits (1)
This exploit leverages a privilege escalation vulnerability in Nagios 4.2.2 and prior by manipulating symlinks to gain root access. It compiles a shared library to hijack the `geteuid` function, creating a SUID root shell.
References (5)
Scores
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H