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CVE-2016-8641 Details

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:7.8 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CNA: [email protected]CVSS-B:6.7 MEDIUMVector:CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8641	CVE	Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/f2ed227673d3b2da643eb5cad26b2d87674f28c1.patch	CVE	PatchThird Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-26	CVE	Third Party Advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40774/	CVE	ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95121	CVE	Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8641	[email protected]	Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/f2ed227673d3b2da643eb5cad26b2d87674f28c1.patch	[email protected]	PatchThird Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-26	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40774/	[email protected]	ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95121	[email protected]	Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-59	Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')	[email protected]
CWE-59	Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
nagios nagios	4.2.0 4.2.1 4.2.2 4.2.3
CPE cpe:2.3:a:nagios:nagios:4.2.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:nagios:nagios:4.2.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:nagios:nagios:4.2.2:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:nagios:nagios:4.2.3:::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

9 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 17, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Feb 12, 2023	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Mar 11, 2020	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Oct 9, 2019	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Oct 5, 2018	Initial Analysis	[email protected]
Aug 3, 2018	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Aug 2, 2018	CVE Modified	[email protected]