CVE-2016-8641

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    CVE-2016-8641

    Published: 1 Aug 2018Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    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.

    References: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95121, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-26, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8641, https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/f2ed227673d3b2da643eb5cad26b2d87674f28c1.patch, https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40774/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- b9751c21db79353ab95d6d4401b129a048657281
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    4.2.0
    4.2.1
    4.2.2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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