CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-14312

7.8 HIGH Published 2017-09-11 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-09-11
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-269

Description

Nagios Core through 4.3.4 initially executes /usr/sbin/nagios as root but supports configuration options in which this file is owned by a non-root account (and similarly can have nagios.cfg owned by a non-root account), which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to this non-root account.

Affected configurations

• nagios nagios core (<= 4.3.4)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness

References