Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource Affecting nagios-common package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-NAGIOSCOMMON-5072518
  • published26 Mar 2023
  • disclosed28 Jul 2017

Introduced: 28 Jul 2017

CVE-2017-12847  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-732  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 nagios-common.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nagios-common package and not the nagios-common package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Nagios Core before 4.3.3 creates a nagios.lock PID file after dropping privileges to a non-root account, which might allow local users to kill arbitrary processes by leveraging access to this non-root account for nagios.lock modification before a root script executes a "kill cat /pathname/nagios.lock" command.