CVE-2014-8994

low
Published 2014-11-28 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
3.6
VIR risk
3.6

Description

The check_diskio plugin 3.2.6 and earlier for Nagios and Icinga allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file with a predictable name (tmp/check_diskio_status-*-*).

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
check_diskio_projectcheck_diskio{"endIncluding":"3.2.5"}

References

CWEs

CWE-18

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.