ID:565 - Exploit for Symlink attack in Nagios - CVE-2016-9566

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Vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a local user obtain elevated privileges on vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to the application handles log files in unsafe manner. A local user with access to Nagios application (nagios account or member of nagios group) can cerate a specially crafted symlink to nagios log file and execute arbitrary command on vulnerable system with root privileges.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a local user to obtain full access to vulnerable system.

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