CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
25.6%
Nagios is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = 'cpe:/a:nagios:nagios';
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.140375");
script_version("2023-07-25T05:05:58+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-07-25 05:05:58 +0000 (Tue, 25 Jul 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2017-09-19 11:03:19 +0700 (Tue, 19 Sep 2017)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.2");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2019-10-03 00:03:00 +0000 (Thu, 03 Oct 2019)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2017-14312");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"WillNotFix");
script_name("Nagios Privilege Escalation Vulnerability");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AG");
script_family("General");
script_dependencies("nagios_detect.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("nagios/installed");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Nagios is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Nagios Core 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.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Nagios 4.3.4 and prior.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"No known solution was made available for at least one year since the
disclosure of this vulnerability. Likely none will be provided anymore. General solution options are to
upgrade to a newer release, disable respective features, remove the product or replace the product by another one.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/issues/424");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if (!port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE))
exit(0);
if (!version = get_app_version(cpe: CPE, port: port))
exit(0);
if (version_is_less_equal(version: version, test_version: "4.3.4")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "None");
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
exit(0);
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
25.6%