Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Nagios Plugins by Nagios
CVE-2013-4215

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Key Information:

Vendor: Nagios
Status: Plugins
Vendor: CVE Published:; 5 May 2014

What is CVE-2013-4215?

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Nagios Plugins version 1.4.16 due to improper handling of symlinks in the IPXPING_COMMAND function located in contrib/check_ipxping.c. This flaw allows local users to exploit the system by creating a symlink to a file in the /tmp/ipxping/ directory, thereby gaining unauthorized privileges. This vulnerability underscores the importance of secure file handling and the need for proper validation in executing commands that interact with system files.

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