PT-2013-3511 · Nagios · Nagios Core

Published 2013-11-23 · Updated 2023-02-13 · CVE-2013-2029

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Nagios Core versions 3.4.4, 3.5.1, and earlier

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary nagioscfg file with a predictable name in /tmp/.

Recommendations For Nagios Core versions 3.4.4, 3.5.1, and earlier, upgrade to version 3 by running the nagios.upgrade to v3.sh script to mitigate the issue.

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-2029

RHSA-2013:1526

Affected Products

Nagios Core

References · 3

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1526.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-2029 · Security Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=958015 · Note