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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.140595
Category:Privilege escalation
Title:Icinga Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Summary:Icinga is prone to a local privilege escalation vulnerability.
Description:Summary:
Icinga is prone to a local privilege escalation vulnerability.

Vulnerability Insight:
Icinga Core through 1.14.0 initially executes bin/icinga as root but
supports configuration options in which this file is owned by a non-root account (and similarly can have
etc/icinga.cfg owned by a non-root account), which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to
this non-root account.

Affected Software/OS:
Icinga 1.14.0 and prior.

Solution:
Update to version 1.14.1 or later.

CVSS Score:
4.6

CVSS Vector:
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-16882
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-31
https://github.com/Icinga/icinga-core/issues/1601
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