Vulnerability in Nagios
CVE-2016-8641
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 6.7 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.011 (65.3th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 65th percentile — 65.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.011 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Nagios — versions 4.2.0, 4.2.1, 4.2.2
- Nagios Enterprises — versions 4.2.x
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40774/ (Exploit, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, exploit)
- github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/f2ed227673d3b2da643eb5cad26b2d87… (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/95121 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-26 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2016-8641?
- CVE-2016-8641 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Nagios, classified under Improper Link Resolution Before File Access. CVSS score: 6.7/10. Published 2018-08-01.
- How severe is CVE-2016-8641?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.7 out of 10.