Access Restriction Bypass Affecting nagios package, versions [,4.3.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (32nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NAGIOS-2370102
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed15 Feb 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Feb 2017

CVE-2016-10089  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade nagios to version 4.3.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. Nagios 4.3.2 and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges via a hard link attack on the Nagios init script file, related to CVE-2016-8641.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1