CVE-2016-10089 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Nagios 4.3.2 and earlier versions. Attackers can exploit a hard link attack on the Nagios init script to gain root privileges. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a significant impact with high confidentiality, integrity, and availability concerns, though it requires local access and low privileges. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 4.2.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:nagios:nagios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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