CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-10089

7.8 HIGH Published 2017-02-15 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2017-02-15
Last modified: 2026-06-17
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected]): 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses: CWE-264

Description

Nagios 4.3.2 and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges via a hard link attack on the Nagios init script file, related to CVE-2016-8641.

Affected configurations

• nagios nagios (<= 4.2.4)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

CWE-264

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/30/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95171 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/30/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95171 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry