CVE-2013-4215

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2013-08-07
Bugzilla:
957482: CVE-2013-4215 Nagios plugins: IPXPING_COMMAND uses fixed location in /tmp

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The IPXPING_COMMAND in contrib/check_ipxping.c in Nagios Plugins 1.4.16 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on /tmp/ipxping/ipxping.

Find out more about CVE-2013-4215 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 2.1
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 nagios-plugins Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3.0 nagios-plugins Not affected

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Grant Murphy of the Red Hat Product Security Team.

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