What is CVE-2016-10089?

CVE-2016-10089 is a high-severity vulnerability in Nagios, classified under CWE-264. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2017-02-15.

How severe is CVE-2016-10089?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Nagios

CVE-2016-10089

Nagios 4.3.2 and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges via a hard link attack on the Nagios init script file, related to CVE-2016-8641.

Published 2017-02-15 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.005 (41.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 42nd percentile — 41.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Nagios

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-264

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/95171 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/30/6 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-10089?: CVE-2016-10089 is a high-severity vulnerability in Nagios, classified under CWE-264. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2017-02-15.
How severe is CVE-2016-10089?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.