VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2016-8641

CVSS score6.7 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.14%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-08-01
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-59: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Primary references