Improper Privilege Management The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package nagios3  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-NAGIOS3-617532
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed11 Sept 2017

Introduced: 11 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-14312  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nagios3 package and not the nagios3 package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Nagios Core through 4.3.4 initially executes /usr/sbin/nagios as root but supports configuration options in which this file is owned by a non-root account (and similarly can have nagios.cfg owned by a non-root account), which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to this non-root account.