High severity · published Aug 1, 2018
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
7.8
CVSS
1.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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 vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.1% · higher than 66% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
NA
nagios · Nagios Enterprises
4.2.x · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8641
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-8641
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95121
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8641
Patch
https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/f2ed227673d3b2da643eb5cad26b2d87674f28c1.patch
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-26
Exploit
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40774/