Improper Privilege Management Affecting NagiosEnterprises/ndoutils package, versions [,2.1.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NAGIOSENTERPRISESNDOUTILS-7653197
  • published8 Aug 2024
  • disclosed7 Aug 2024
  • creditMichael Orlitzky

Introduced: 7 Aug 2024

CVE-2024-43199  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade NagiosEnterprises/ndoutils to version 2.1.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Privilege Management in configure.acdue to the two flags in INSTALL_OPTS that change the owner:group of all installed files to ndo2db_user:ndo2db_group. An attacker, as ndo2db_user can escalate privileges and execute commands as the root user if the executables installed in the PATH are executed by root.

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