{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2016-12-07T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "nagios: Privilege escalation issue",
    "id" : "1402869",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1402869"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "6.9",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "7.3",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-59",
  "details" : [ "base/logging.c in Nagios Core before 4.2.4 allows local users with access to an account in the nagios group to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the log file.  NOTE: this can be leveraged by remote attackers using CVE-2016-9565.", "A privilege escalation flaw was found in the way Nagios handled log files. An attacker able to control the Nagios logging configuration (the 'nagios' user/group) could use this flaw to elevate their privileges to root." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6",
    "release_date" : "2017-01-31T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2017:0212",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:5::el6",
    "package" : "nagios-0:3.5.1-9.el6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7",
    "release_date" : "2017-01-31T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2017:0211",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:5::el7",
    "package" : "nagios-0:3.5.1-9.el7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7",
    "release_date" : "2017-01-31T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2017:0213",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:6::el7",
    "package" : "nagios-0:3.5.1-9.el7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7",
    "release_date" : "2017-01-31T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2017:0214",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:7::el7",
    "package" : "nagios-0:3.5.1-9.el7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6",
    "release_date" : "2017-02-07T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2017:0259",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:storage:3.1:nagios:el6",
    "package" : "nagios-0:3.5.1-9.el6",
    "impact" : "moderate"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 7",
    "release_date" : "2017-02-07T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2017:0258",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:storage:3.1:nagios:el7",
    "package" : "nagios-0:3.5.1-9.el7",
    "impact" : "moderate"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "nagios",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:mobile_application_platform:4",
    "impact" : "moderate"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton)",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "nagios",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:10"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty)",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "nagios",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka)",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "nagios",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9566\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9566\nhttps://legalhackers.com/advisories/Nagios-Exploit-Root-PrivEsc-CVE-2016-9566.html" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2016-9566",
  "csaw" : false
}