CVE-2016-8641

MEDIUM

Nagios 4.2.x - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

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)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED

by Vincent Malguy · bashlocallinux

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40774

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References (5)

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95121

[Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8641

[Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/f2ed227673d3b2da643eb5cad26b2d87674f28c1.patch

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-26

[Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40774/

Scores

CVSS v3 6.7

EPSS 0.0091

EPSS Percentile 75.8%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

Details

CWE

CWE-59

Status published

Products (4)

nagios/nagios 4.2.0

nagios/nagios 4.2.1

nagios/nagios 4.2.2

nagios/nagios 4.2.3

Published Aug 01, 2018

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026