Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.106474
Category:	Web application abuses
Title:	Nagios Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Summary:	Nagios is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability.
Description:	Summary: Nagios is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability. Vulnerability Insight: The Nagios startup script, run by root, is insecurely giving owner of file to nagios. If the Nagios user symlink $NagiosRunFile to a file that he has no access to, at startup or reboot of the nagios daemon, the init script will give him ownership of the linked file. Vulnerability Impact: A local attacker may gain privileged access to files. Affected Software/OS: Nagios 4.2.2 and before. Solution: Update to version 4.2.3 or later. CVSS Score: 7.2 CVSS Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-8641 40774 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40774/ 95121 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95121 GLSA-201702-26 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-26 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8641 https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/f2ed227673d3b2da643eb5cad26b2d87674f28c1.patch
Copyright	Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AG

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