Nagios up to 4.3.4 /usr/sbin/nagios access control

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A vulnerability was found in Nagios up to 4.3.4 (Log Management Software) and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the file /usr/sbin/nagios. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Nagios Core through 4.3.4 initially executes /usr/sbin/nagios as root but supports configuration options in which this file is owned by a non-root account (and similarly can have nagios.cfg owned by a non-root account), which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to this non-root account.

The bug was discovered 09/11/2017. The weakness was disclosed 09/11/2017 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2017-14312 since 09/11/2017. The attack needs to be approached locally. The requirement for exploitation is a simple authentication. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 119322 (GLSA-201812-03 : Nagios: Privilege escalation), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Gentoo Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 277693 (Fedora Security Update for nagios (FEDORA-2017-d270e932a3)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 2 years after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (119322) and SecurityFocus (BID 100881†). The entries VDB-94545, VDB-94546, VDB-99135 and VDB-105677 are pretty similar.

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Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Nessus ID: 119322
Nessus Name: GLSA-201812-03 : Nagios: Privilege escalation
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OpenVAS ID: 800068
OpenVAS Name: Nagios Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Advisory: 424⛔
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2017-14312 (🔍)
SecurityFocus: 100881 - Nagios Core CVE-2017-14312 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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Created: 09/12/2017 08:48 AM
Updated: 12/28/2022 12:05 PM
Changes: 09/12/2017 08:48 AM (63), 11/15/2019 08:12 AM (15), 12/28/2022 12:05 PM (4)
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