Privilege Escalation in PNP4Nagios through 0.6.26 via Unprivileged Account Ownership

CVE-2017-16834 · HIGH Severity

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

PNP4Nagios through 0.6.26 has /usr/bin/npcd and npcd.cfg owned by an unprivileged account but root code execution depends on these files, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to this unprivileged account.

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