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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.140321
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 PID file of Nagios is writeable by non-admin users. A non-root attacker
can replace its contents with the PID of a root process which may leed to a denial of service attack.

Affected Software/OS:
Nagios 4.3.2 and prior.

Solution:
Update to version 4.3.3 or later.

CVSS Score:
6.3

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-12847
BugTraq ID: 100403
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100403
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-20
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