PT-2018-17617 · Icinga · Icinga

Crunsher · Published 2018-02-27 · Updated 2019-10-03 · CVE-2018-6533

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Icinga versions 2.x through 2.8.1

Description An issue was discovered that allows Icinga 2 to be run as root by editing the init.conf file, enabling the program to execute arbitrary code as root. This issue was resolved by changing how account information is determined for root-executed code.

Recommendations For Icinga versions 2.x through 2.8.1, update the software to a version where the issue of using init.conf to determine account information for root-executed code has been fixed.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-6533

Affected Products

Icinga

References · 8

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-6533 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6533 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-6533 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6533 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6533 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-6533 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-6533 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2/pull/5850 · Note