CVE-2013-4215 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Severity

44%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

106%

The IPXPING_COMMAND in contrib/check_ipxping.c in Nagios Plugins 1.4.16 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on /tmp/ipxping/ipxping.

The IPXPING_COMMAND in contrib/check_ipxping.c in Nagios Plugins 1.4.16 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on /tmp/ipxping/ipxping.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.4. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 10 years ago

2014-05-05 17:06:00

Last updated 10 years ago

2014-05-06 19:10:00

Affected Software

Nagios Plugins 1.4.16

1.4.16

References

96085

[oss-security] 20130807 Some Nagios /tmp vulns (no reply from upstream)

http://tracker.nagios.org/view.php?id=451

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=957482

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