PT-2014-2764 · Nagios · Nagios Plugins

Published 2014-05-05 · Updated 2014-05-06 · CVE-2013-4215

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.4

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Nagios Plugins version 1.4.16

Description The issue allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on /tmp/ipxping/ipxping. This is related to the IPXPING COMMAND in contrib/check ipxping.c.

Recommendations For Nagios Plugins version 1.4.16, consider restricting access to the /tmp/ipxping/ipxping file to prevent a symlink attack. Additionally, monitor the system for any suspicious activity related to the IPXPING COMMAND. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-4215

Affected Products

Nagios Plugins

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4215 · Security Note
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/310 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/96085 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=957482 · Note
• http://tracker.nagios.org/view.php?id=451 · Note