CVE-2016-9566

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 4.9%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDDec 15

1st PoCDec 15

exploitation probability

4.9%top 9% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

2 public exploit(s)

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.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 2

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References

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 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1402869 http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Dec/58 https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/commit/c29557dec91eba2306f5fb11b8da4474ba63f8c4 https://legalhackers.com/advisories/Nagios-Exploit-Root-PrivEsc-CVE-2016-9566.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00014.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-51