CVE-2016-9566

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9566
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-9566.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-9566
Downstream
DLA (2)
MGASA (1)
openSUSE (1)
RHSA (6)
SUSE (2)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
openSUSE (1)
SUSE (2)
Published
2016-12-15T22:59:00Z
Modified
2026-10-20T10:48:05Z
Severity
  • 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

base/logging.c in Nagios Core before 4.2.4 allows local users with access to an account in the nagios group to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the log file. NOTE: this can be leveraged by remote attackers using CVE-2016-9565.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/nagiosenterprises/nagioscore

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/nagiosenterprises/nagioscore
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last Affected
290af75004de0d31a77a66d16b5688ab6a8a6664
Fixed
c29557dec91eba2306f5fb11b8da4474ba63f8c4
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:nagios:nagios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "4.2.3"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_RANGE"
        },
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "c29557dec91eba2306f5fb11b8da4474ba63f8c4"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

nagios-1.*
nagios-1.0a6
nagios-1.0a7
nagios-1.0b1
nagios-1.0b2
nagios-1.0b3
nagios-1.0b4
nagios-1.0b5
nagios-1.0b6
nagios-2.*
nagios-2.0
nagios-2.0.b5
nagios-2.0b1
nagios-2.0b2
nagios-2.0b3
nagios-2.0b4
nagios-2.0b6
nagios-2.0rc1
nagios-3.*
nagios-3.0
nagios-3.0.1
nagios-3.0.2
nagios-3.0.3
nagios-3.0.4
nagios-3.0.5
nagios-3.0.6
nagios-3.0a1
nagios-3.0a2
nagios-3.0a3
nagios-3.0a4
nagios-3.0a5
nagios-3.0b1
nagios-3.0b2
nagios-3.0b3
nagios-3.0b4
nagios-3.0b5
nagios-3.0b6
nagios-3.0b7
nagios-3.0rc1
nagios-3.0rc2
nagios-3.0rc3
nagios-3.1.0
nagios-3.1.1
nagios-3.1.2
nagios-3.2.0
nagios-3.2.1
nagios-3.2.2
nagios-3.2.3
nagios-3.3.1
nagios-3.4.0
nagios-3.4.1
nagios-4.*
nagios-4.0.0
nagios-4.0.0-beta1
nagios-4.0.0-beta2
nagios-4.0.0-beta3
nagios-4.0.0-beta4
nagios-4.0.4
nagios-4.0.5
nagios-4.0.6
nagios-4.1.0
nagios-4.1.0rc2
nagios-4.1.1
nagios-4.2.1
nagios-4.2.3
release-4.*
release-4.2.3

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-9566.json"