Privilege escalation in Opsview Monitor - CVE-2018-16145
Published: September 5, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU14607
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-16145
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Opsview
Affected software:
Opsview Monitor
Opsview Monitor
Detailed vulnerability description
The disclosed vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to the '/etc/init.d/opsview-reporting-module' script invokes the '/opt/opsview/jasper/bin/db_jasper' script. A local attacker can cause the scripts that run at boot time to impersonate nagios user during its execution and gain elevated privileges.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-16145
The vulnerability has been fixed in the versions 5.3.1, 5.4.2, 6.0.