EDB-40921

functional

Nagios < 4.2.4 - Local Privilege Escalation

view exploit source exploit_dbverifiedtype localauthor Dawid Golunskipublished 2016-12-15catalog exploit_db
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IDseverity exploitable
CVE-2016-9566UShigh7.8Exploit
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: thi…
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