CVE-2016-8641

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.
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:a:nagios:nagios:4.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:nagios:nagios:4.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:nagios:nagios:4.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:nagios:nagios:4.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

21 Nov 2024, 02:59

Type Values Removed Values Added
CVSS v2 : 7.2
v3 : 7.8
v2 : 7.2
v3 : 6.7
References () http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95121 - Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry () http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95121 - Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
References () https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8641 - Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory () https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8641 - Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
References () https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/f2ed227673d3b2da643eb5cad26b2d87674f28c1.patch - Patch, Third Party Advisory () https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/f2ed227673d3b2da643eb5cad26b2d87674f28c1.patch - Patch, Third Party Advisory
References () https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-26 - Third Party Advisory () https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-26 - Third Party Advisory
References () https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40774/ - Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry () https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40774/ - Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

Information

Published : 2018-08-01 14:29

Updated : 2024-11-21 02:59


NVD link : CVE-2016-8641

Mitre link : CVE-2016-8641

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2016-8641


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Products Affected

nagios

  • nagios
CWE
CWE-59

Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')