CVE Catalog

CVE-2017-16882

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Icinga Core through version 1.14.0 initially executes bin/icinga as root but supports configuration options where this file is owned by a non-root account. This allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to this non-root account.

Risk Assessment

The organization may be exposed to unauthorized access and privilege escalation by local users, potentially leading to serious security breaches.

Recommendation

It is recommended that the files bin/icinga, bin/icingastats, bin/ido2db, and bin/log2ido be owned by the root account and that the etc/icinga.cfg file be properly configured.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Icinga Core through 1.14.0 initially executes bin/icinga as root but supports configuration options in which this file is owned by a non-root account (and similarly can have etc/icinga.cfg owned by a non-root account), which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to this non-root account, a related issue to CVE-2017-14312. This also affects bin/icingastats, bin/ido2db, and bin/log2ido.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS