CVE-2016-9566
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/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
- Related
- Published
- 2016-12-15T22:59:00.537Z
- Modified
- 2025-11-20T10:34:10.954790Z
- 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
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- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037487
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00014.html
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40921/
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0211.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0212.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0213.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0214.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0258.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0259.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Dec/58
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94919
- https://legalhackers.com/advisories/Nagios-Exploit-Root-PrivEsc-CVE-2016-9566.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-51
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-26
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-20
- https://www.nagios.org/projects/nagios-core/history/4x/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1402869
- https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/c29557dec91eba2306f5fb11b8da4474ba63f8c4
Affected packages
Git / github.com/nagiosenterprises/nagioscore
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/nagiosenterprises/nagioscore
- Events
-
Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixed
Affected versions
4.*
4.2.1
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-4.0.1
nagios-4.0.2
nagios-4.0.2rc1
nagios-4.0.3
nagios-4.0.3rc1
nagios-4.0.4
nagios-4.0.5
nagios-4.0.6
nagios-4.0.7
nagios-4.0.8
nagios-4.0.8rc1
nagios-4.1.0
nagios-4.1.0rc2
nagios-4.1.1
nagios-4.1.2-Pre1
nagios-4.2.0
nagios-4.2.1
nagios-4.2.2
nagios-4.2.3
release-4.*
release-4.2.3