CVE-2026-73974
MediumCVSS 5.5Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk4th percentile - higher than 4% of all known CVEs
Summary
Vulnerability in linuxfabrik-lib and Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins allows reading files via a hidden --test argument that does not confine paths to the test directory. An attacker controlling the nagios or icinga account can disclose root-readable file contents, e.g., via the deb-updates plugin.
Risk Assessment
Risk of exposing sensitive system data such as configuration files or passwords, potentially leading to privilege escalation or further attacks.
Recommendation
Update linuxfabrik-lib to 6.1.0 or later and Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins to 7.0.0 or later to restrict file reads to the test directory.
Original NVD description (English source)
linuxfabrik-lib provides Python modules for database access, caching, shell execution, and API integrations, and Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins uses its shared testing helper across check plugins. Prior to linuxfabrik-lib 6.1.0 and Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins 7.0.0, lib.lftest.test() treated the first or second element of a --test CSV argument as a filesystem path and returned the file contents as simulated standard output or standard error without path confinement. The hidden but production-accessible --test argument was accepted by sudo-authorized plugins, so an attacker controlling the nagios or icinga account could use check-plugins/deb-updates/deb-updates with its default QUERY=1 to disclose every line of a root-readable file. Approximately 22 other plugins exposed filtered content or a root file existence and readability oracle through the same helper, while check-plugins/network-bonding/network-bonding and check-plugins/openstack-swift-stat/openstack-swift-stat had direct read paths that bypassed the helper. The library fix confines fixture reads to the invoking plugin's unit-test directory and refuses unsafe anchors, and the plugin fix routes the two bypasses through that helper. These issues are fixed in linuxfabrik-lib 6.1.0 and Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins 7.0.0.