Privilege Escalation in Nagios Core through 4.3.4 via Non-Root Account Ownership

CVE-2017-14312 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Nagios Core through 4.3.4 initially executes /usr/sbin/nagios as root but supports configuration options in which this file is owned by a non-root account (and similarly can have nagios.cfg owned by a non-root account), which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to this non-root account.

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