CVE-2018-6533 in Icinga

Summary

An issue was discovered in Icinga 2.x through 2.8.1. By editing the init.conf file, Icinga 2 can be run as root. Following this the program can be used to run arbitrary code as root.

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• Reservation: 02/02/2018
• Disclosure: 02/27/2018
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 1: VDB-113913
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-264 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 7.8
• EPSS: 0.00047
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6533
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6533
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2018-6533/