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    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.

    Published:Nov 22, 2016
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:Aug 1, 2018
    EPSS Score:0.01124
    CVSS Score:6.7

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Nagios
    Product
    Nagios

    Exploits

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

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
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    Physical
    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Required
    Scope
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    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
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