CVE-2013-4214
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.3
Description
rss-newsfeed.php in Nagios Core 3.4.4, 3.5.1, and earlier, when MAGPIE_CACHE_ON is set to 1, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/magpie_cache.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1526.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61747
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=958002
- https://www.nagios.org/projects/nagios-core/history/4x/
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1526.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61747
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=958002
- https://www.nagios.org/projects/nagios-core/history/4x/
CWEs
CWE-59
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.