CVE-2016-8641 MEDIUM

CVE-2016-8641

Vendor Nagios Enterprises
Product nagios
Weakness CWE-59
Published August 1, 2018
Last update August 6, 2024

CVSS base score

6.7/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity High
Privileges required Low
User interaction Required
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

August 1, 2018 CVE published
August 6, 2024 Record updated