CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-9566

7.8 HIGH Published 2016-12-15 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-12-15
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, CWE-59

Description

base/logging.c in Nagios Core before 4.2.4 allows local users with access to an account in the nagios group to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the log file. NOTE: this can be leveraged by remote attackers using CVE-2016-9565.

Affected configurations

• nagios nagios (<= 4.2.3)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References