CVE-2016-8641
Nagios 4.2.2 - Local Privilege Escalation
Severity Score
Exploit Likelihood
Affected Versions
Public Exploits
2Exploited in Wild
-Decision
Descriptions
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.
Se ha encontrado una vulnerabilidad de escalado de privilegios en nagios 4.2.x que ocurre en daemon-init.in al crear archivos necesarios y, posteriormente, cambiar de forma no segura la propiedad. Es posible que el atacante local cree vínculos simbólicos antes de que se creen los archivos y escale privilegios con el cambio de propiedad.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Nagios, the worst of which could lead to privilege escalation. Versions less than 4.2.4 are affected.
CVSS Scores
SSVC
- Decision:-
Timeline
- 2016-10-12 CVE Reserved
- 2016-12-02 CVE Published
- 2016-12-02 First Exploit
- 2024-08-06 CVE Updated
- 2025-04-01 EPSS Updated
- ---------- Exploited in Wild
- ---------- KEV Due Date
CWE
- CWE-59: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
CAPEC
References (6)
| URL | Tag | Source |
|---|---|---|
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95121 | Third Party Advisory |
| URL | Date | SRC |
|---|---|---|
| https://packetstorm.news/files/id/140292 | 2016-12-02 | |
| https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40774 | 2024-08-06 |
| URL | Date | SRC |
|---|---|---|
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8641 | 2023-02-12 | |
| https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/f2ed227673d3b2da643eb5cad26b2d87674f28c1.patch | 2023-02-12 |
| URL | Date | SRC |
|---|---|---|
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-26 | 2023-02-12 |
Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
| Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status | ||||||
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| Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status | <-- --> | Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status |
| Nagios Search vendor "Nagios" | Nagios Search vendor "Nagios" for product "Nagios" | 4.2.0 Search vendor "Nagios" for product "Nagios" and version "4.2.0" | - |
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| Nagios Search vendor "Nagios" | Nagios Search vendor "Nagios" for product "Nagios" | 4.2.1 Search vendor "Nagios" for product "Nagios" and version "4.2.1" | - |
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| Nagios Search vendor "Nagios" | Nagios Search vendor "Nagios" for product "Nagios" | 4.2.2 Search vendor "Nagios" for product "Nagios" and version "4.2.2" | - |
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| Nagios Search vendor "Nagios" | Nagios Search vendor "Nagios" for product "Nagios" | 4.2.3 Search vendor "Nagios" for product "Nagios" and version "4.2.3" | - |
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