High severity · published Nov 18, 2017
CVE-2017-16882
Icinga Core through 1.14.0 initially executes bin/icinga as root but supports configuration options in which this file is owned by a non-root account (and similarly can have…
7.8
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Icinga Core through 1.14.0 initially executes bin/icinga as root but supports configuration options in which this file is owned by a non-root account (and similarly can have etc/icinga.cfg owned by a non-root account), which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to this non-root account, a related issue to CVE-2017-14312. This also affects bin/icingastats, bin/ido2db, and bin/log2ido.
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)0.3% · higher than 24% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
IC
Icinga · Icinga
through 1.14.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16882
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-16882
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/Icinga/icinga-core/issues/1601
security.gentoo.org
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-31
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