Access Restriction Bypass Affecting icinga/icinga2 package, versions [2.0.0,2.8.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ICINGAICINGA2-2365029
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 Nov 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Nov 2017

CVE-2017-16933  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade icinga/icinga2 to version 2.8.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass etc/initsystem/prepare-dirs in Icinga 2.x through 2.8.1 has a chown call for a filename in a user-writable directory, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to the $ICINGA2_USER account for creation of a link.

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