CVE-2016-8641
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-8641
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8641.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-8641
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2018-08-01T14:29:00Z
- Modified
- 2026-07-08T12:28:58Z
- Severity
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- 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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A privilege escalation vulnerability was found in nagios 4.2.x that occurs in daemon-init.in when creating necessary files and insecurely changing the ownership afterwards. It's possible for the local attacker to create symbolic links before the files are to be created and possibly escalating the privileges with the ownership change.
- References
Affected packages
Git / github.com/nagiosenterprises/nagioscore
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/nagiosenterprises/nagioscore
- Events
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IntroducedLast AffectedFixed
- Database specific
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{ "cpe": [ "cpe:2.3:a:nagios:nagios:4.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:nagios:nagios:4.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:nagios:nagios:4.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:nagios:nagios:4.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*" ], "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "4.2.0" }, { "last_affected": "4.2.0" }, { "introduced": "4.2.1" }, { "last_affected": "4.2.1" }, { "introduced": "4.2.3" }, { "last_affected": "4.2.3" }, { "introduced": "4.2.2" }, { "last_affected": "4.2.2" } ], "source": [ "CPE_STRING", "REFERENCES" ] }