CVE-2013-4215

MEDIUM 4.4CVE-2013-4215 · Published 05/05/2014 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2013-4215 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.4) vulnerability affecting plugins (nagios).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.33%, higher than 26.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
plugins nagios	`= 1.4.16`	No fix yet

Description

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.

References

osvdb.org/96085
seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/310
tracker.nagios.org/view.php
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi

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