Description
Nagios XI versions prior to 2011R1.9 contain privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the scripts that install or update system crontab entries. Due to time-of-check/time-of-use race conditions and missing synchronization or final-path validation, a local low-privileged user could manipulate filesystem state during crontab installation to influence the files or commands executed with elevated privileges, resulting in execution with higher privileges.
Problem types
CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
Product status
Any version before 2011R1.9
Credits
0a29406d9794e4f9b30b3c5d6702c708
References
www.nagios.com/changelog/nagios-xi/
www.vulncheck.com/...onditions-in-crontab-install-script-lpe