Icinga
CVE-2017-16882
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V13 - Configuration Permission assignment review
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| Impact | CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: local attack vector, low complexity, low privileges required, no user interaction not required. EPSS exploitation probability: 0.04%. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A local attacker with access to the system could access resources due to misconfigured permissions. |
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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. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
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This vulnerability is classified as Incorrect Permission Assignment (CWE-732), which allows attackers to access resources due to misconfigured permissions. 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. Affected products include: Icinga. Version information: through 1.14.0.
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DescriptionCVE.org
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.
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Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.
Affected Products (CPE)CVE.org
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the get_history function in history.cgi in Nagios Core before 3.4.4, and Icinga
Multiple off-by-one errors in Nagios Core 3.5.1, 4.0.2, and earlier, and Icinga before 1.8.5, 1.9 before 1.9.4, and 1.10
Icinga Web 2 before 2.6.2 allows injection of PHP ini-file directives via vectors involving environment variables as the
Icinga Web 2 is an open source monitoring web interface, framework and command-line interface. Rated high severity (CVSS
Icinga is a monitoring system which checks the availability of network resources, notifies users of outages, and generat
Icinga is a monitoring system which checks the availability of network resources, notifies users of outages, and generat
Icinga Director is a tool designed to make Icinga 2 configuration handling easy. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.3), this vu
An issue was discovered in Icinga2 before v2.12.0-rc1. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack
Icinga Web 2 is an open source monitoring web interface, framework and command-line interface. Rated high severity (CVSS
Icinga Icinga Web2 2.0.0 through 2.6.4, 2.7.4 and 2.8.2 has a Directory Traversal vulnerability which allows an attacker
Icinga Web 2 before 2.6.2 allows parameters that break navigation dashlets, as demonstrated by a single '$' character as
etc/initsystem/prepare-dirs in Icinga 2.x through 2.8.1 has a chown call for a filename in a user-writable directory, wh
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