Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-14312

Title: Nagios Nagios Core Auth Bypass

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-14312.

CWE Category CWE-269

Published Date Sep 11, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.33%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-14312: 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.

Impacted Vendors

nagios 1

Reference Links

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100881 https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/issues/424 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201812-03 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100881 https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/issues/424 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201812-03

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.8

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.2

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns