{"id":"CVE-2017-14312","details":"Nagios Core through 4.3.4 initially executes /usr/sbin/nagios as root but supports configuration options in which this file is owned by a non-root account (and similarly can have nagios.cfg owned by a non-root account), which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to this non-root account.","modified":"2026-04-10T03:57:08.558872Z","published":"2017-09-11T22:29:00.223Z","references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100881"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201812-03"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/issues/424"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/nagiosenterprises/nagioscore","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"bfe29af182614c399c00a452dde1b4a5900854a5"}],"database_specific":{"versions":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"4.3.4"}]}}],"versions":["4.2.1","nagios-1.0a6","nagios-1.0a7","nagios-1.0b1","nagios-1.0b2","nagios-1.0b3","nagios-1.0b4","nagios-1.0b5","nagios-1.0b6","nagios-2.0","nagios-2.0.b5","nagios-2.0b1","nagios-2.0b2","nagios-2.0b3","nagios-2.0b4","nagios-2.0b6","nagios-2.0rc1","nagios-3.0","nagios-3.0.1","nagios-3.0.2","nagios-3.0.3","nagios-3.0.4","nagios-3.0.5","nagios-3.0.6","nagios-3.0a1","nagios-3.0a2","nagios-3.0a3","nagios-3.0a4","nagios-3.0a5","nagios-3.0b1","nagios-3.0b2","nagios-3.0b3","nagios-3.0b4","nagios-3.0b5","nagios-3.0b6","nagios-3.0b7","nagios-3.0rc1","nagios-3.0rc2","nagios-3.0rc3","nagios-3.1.0","nagios-3.1.1","nagios-3.1.2","nagios-3.2.0","nagios-3.2.1","nagios-3.2.2","nagios-3.2.3","nagios-3.3.1","nagios-3.4.0","nagios-3.4.1","nagios-4.0.0","nagios-4.0.0-beta1","nagios-4.0.0-beta2","nagios-4.0.0-beta3","nagios-4.0.0-beta4","nagios-4.0.4","nagios-4.0.5","nagios-4.0.6","nagios-4.1.0","nagios-4.1.0rc2","nagios-4.1.1","nagios-4.2.2","nagios-4.3.0","nagios-4.3.1","nagios-4.3.2","nagios-4.3.3","nagios-4.3.4","release-4.2.4","release-4.3.0"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-14312.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}