CVE-2017-16933 — Incorrect Permission Assignment in Icinga

CWE-732 — Incorrect Permission Assignment5 documents5 sources
Severity
7.0HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 91.67%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Icinga Icinga2Icinga
Timeline
PublishedNov 24
Latest updateMay 13

Description

etc/initsystem/prepare-dirs in Icinga 2.x through 2.8.1 has a chown call for a filename in a user-writable directory, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to the $ICINGA2_USER account for creation of a link.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.0 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debianicinga/icinga2< 2.8.4-1+3
▶NVDicinga/icinga2.0.0 — 2.8.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-v3ww-m662-2527: etc/initsystem/prepare-dirs in Icinga 2↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2017-16933: etc/initsystem/prepare-dirs in Icinga 2↗2017-11-24
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OSV
CVE-2017-16933: etc/initsystem/prepare-dirs in Icinga 2↗2017-11-24
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Debian
CVE-2017-16933: icinga2 - etc/initsystem/prepare-dirs in Icinga 2.x through 2.8.1 has a chown call for a f...↗2017
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