CVE-2017-14312

Published: 11 September 2017

Nagios Core through 4.3.4 initially executes /usr/sbin/nagios as root but supports configuration options in which this file is owned by a non-root account (and similarly can have nagios.cfg owned by a non-root account), which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to this non-root account.

Notes

this issue doesn't apply to the Debian/Ubuntu package. The
binary and config file both have appropriate permissions.

Priority

High

CVSS 3 base score: 7.8

Status

References

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14312
• https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/issues/424
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian