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.

CVSS v3.0

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

CVSS v3.0

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

CVSS v2.0

7.2 HIGHAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS

1.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 64th percentile

Published

2018-08-01

Updated

2024-08-06

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40774

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2016-8610
• CVE-2016-8654
• CVE-2016-8600
• CVE-2016-8655
• CVE-2016-8593
• CVE-2016-8704