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GHSA-XH33-X4FQ-3R2H

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-13 01:38 – Updated: 2022-05-13 01:38

Details

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.

Severity ?

7.8 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2016-8641 (GCVE-0-2016-8641)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-08-01 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 02:27

Summary

Severity ?

6.7 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

CWE-59

Assigner

redhat

References

URL

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	https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/c…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95121	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-26	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Nagios Enterprises	nagios	Affected: 4.2.x

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Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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GHSA-XH33-X4FQ-3R2H

CVE-2016-8641 (GCVE-0-2016-8641)

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