Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title PNP4Nagios: Root privilege escalation
Informations
Name GLSA-201806-09 First vendor Publication 2018-06-24
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2018-06-24
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 7.2 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A vulnerability in PNP4Nagios which may allow local attackers to gain root privileges.

Background

PNP4Nagios is an addon for the Nagios Network Monitoring System.

Description

It was found that PHP4Nagios creates files owned by an unprivileged user that are used by root.

Impact

A local attacker could escalate privileges to root.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All PNP4Nagios users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot -v ">=net-analyzer/pnp4nagios-0.6.26-r9"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2017-16834 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16834

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201806-09

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201806-09.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 20

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-06-25 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201806-09.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2018-06-24 05:17:24
  • First insertion