Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: mrtg security update

An update for mrtg is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the...

mrtg: MRTG daemon symlink-following chown allows local privilege escalation via PID file path manipulation

A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link symlink following vulnerability. By influencing or pre-placing a symlink in the process ID PID file path, the attacker can trick...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: mrtg security update

An update for mrtg is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the...

mrtg security update

2.17.7-12.0.1.el98.1 - Create mrtg lock file before running restorecon on it Orabug: 39096845 2.17.7-12.1 - Fix CVE-2026-72694: symlink-following chown of pid file in daemon mode Resolves: RHEL-236047...

Important: mrtg security update

The Multi Router Traffic Grapher MRTG monitors the traffic load on network connections. MRTG generates HTML pages containing PNG images which provide a live visual representation of this traffic. Security Fixes: mrtg: MRTG daemon symlink-following chown allows local privilege escalation via PID...

RHEL 10 : mrtg (RHSA-2026:57596)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:57596 advisory. The Multi Router Traffic Grapher MRTG monitors the traffic load on network connections. MRTG generates HTML pages containing PNG images which provi...

ALSA-2026:57600 Important: mrtg security update

The Multi Router Traffic Grapher MRTG monitors the traffic load on network connections. MRTG generates HTML pages containing PNG images which provide a live visual representation of this traffic. Security Fixes: mrtg: MRTG daemon symlink-following chown allows local privilege escalation via PID...

RHEL 9 : mrtg (RHSA-2026:57600)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:57600 advisory. The Multi Router Traffic Grapher MRTG monitors the traffic load on network connections. MRTG generates HTML pages containing PNG images which provid...

ALSA-2026:57596 Important: mrtg security update

The Multi Router Traffic Grapher MRTG monitors the traffic load on network connections. MRTG generates HTML pages containing PNG images which provide a live visual representation of this traffic. Security Fixes: mrtg: MRTG daemon symlink-following chown allows local privilege escalation via PID...

TencentOS Server 4: mrtg (TSSA-2026:0844)

The version of Tencent Linux installed on the remote TencentOS Server 4 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the TSSA-2026:0844 advisory. Package updates are available for TencentOS Server 4 that fix the following vulnerabilities:...

AZL-95885 CVE-2026-72694 affecting package mrtg 2.17.7-6

A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link symlink following vulnerability. By influencing or pre-placing a symlink in the process ID PID file path, the attacker can trick...

CVE-2026-72694

A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link symlink following vulnerability. By influencing or pre-placing a symlink in the process ID PID file path, the attacker can trick...

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-72694

A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link symlink following vulnerability. By influencing or pre-placing a symlink in the process ID PID file path, the attacker can trick...

CVE-2026-72694

A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link symlink following vulnerability. By influencing or pre-placing a symlink in the process ID PID file path, the attacker can trick...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-72694

A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link symlink following vulnerability. By influencing or pre-placing a symlink in the process ID PID file path, the attacker can trick...

EUVD-2026-55977

A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link symlink following vulnerability. By influencing or pre-placing a symlink in the process ID PID file path, the attacker can trick...

CVE-2026-72694

CVE-2026-72694 describes a local privilege escalation in MRTG. When MRTG runs as root and then drops privileges, a low-privileged attacker can exploit a symlink-following vulnerability in the PID file path to trick the root process into changing ownership of an arbitrary existing file to the daem...

CVE-2026-72694 Mrtg: mrtg daemon symlink-following chown allows local privilege escalation via pid file path manipulation

A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link symlink following vulnerability. By influencing or pre-placing a symlink in the process ID PID file path, the attacker can trick...

CVE-2026-72694 Mrtg: mrtg daemon symlink-following chown allows local privilege escalation via pid file path manipulation

A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link symlink following vulnerability. By influencing or pre-placing a symlink in the process ID PID file path, the attacker can trick...

CVE-2026-72694

A flaw was found in MRTG. When the MRTG daemon is started as a root user and subsequently drops privileges, a local, low-privileged attacker can exploit a symbolic link symlink following vulnerability. By influencing or pre-placing a symlink in the process ID PID file path, the attacker can trick...