Improper Privilege Management Affecting NagiosEnterprises/ndoutils package, versions [,2.1.4)
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.06% (27th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UNMANAGED-NAGIOSENTERPRISESNDOUTILS-7653197
- published 8 Aug 2024
- disclosed 7 Aug 2024
- credit Michael Orlitzky
Introduced: 7 Aug 2024
CVE-2024-43199 Open this link in a new tabHow 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.