Executive Summary

Summary
Title Nagios: Privilege escalation
Informations
Name GLSA-201812-03 First vendor Publication 2018-12-02
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2018-12-02
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 Nagios allows local users to escalate privileges.

Background

Nagios is an open source host, service and network monitoring program.

Description

A vulnerability in Nagios was discovered due to the improper handling of configuration files which can be owned by a non-root user.

Impact

A local attacker can escalate privileges to root by leveraging access to a non-root owned configuration file.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Nagios users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/nagios-core-4.3.4"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2017-14312 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14312

Availability

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

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201812-03

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201812-03.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-12-03 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201812-03.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-01-15 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-d270e932a3.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2018-12-02 17:18:15
  • First insertion