Access Restriction Bypass Affecting nagios package, versions [,4.2.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
48.29% (98th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NAGIOS-2370089
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed15 Dec 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Dec 2016

CVE-2016-9566  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade nagios to version 4.2.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass base/logging.c in Nagios Core before 4.2.4 allows local users with access to an account in the nagios group to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the log file. NOTE: this can be leveraged by remote attackers using CVE-2016-9565.

CVSS Base Scores

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