CVE-2016-8641

Medium

Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability was found in nagios 4.2.x that occurs in daemon-init.in when creating necessary files and insecurely changing the ownership afterwards. It's possible for the local attacker to create symbolic links before the files are to be created and possibly escalating the privileges with the ownership change.

SeverityMedium

CVSS6.7

Exploit probability—

ProductNagios

PublishedAug 1, 2018

First seenAug 1, 2018

Weakness typeCWE-59Improper link resolution

How to fix

Vendor advisories

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-26

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
nagios nagios	4.2.0, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.2.3	—

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