VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-2057

low
Published 2016-04-13 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
3.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS v2
2.1
VIR risk
3.3

Description

lib/xymond_ipc.c in Xymon 4.1.x, 4.2.x, and 4.3.x before 4.3.25 use weak permissions (666) for an unspecified IPC message queue, which allows local users to inject arbitrary messages by writing to that queue.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
34%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2057

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/7891/

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debian8.0affected
debian debianbookwormfixed4.3.25-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.3.25-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.3.25-1
debian debiansidfixed4.3.25-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.3.25-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
xymonxymon4.1.0
xymonxymon4.1.1
xymonxymon4.1.2
xymonxymon4.2
xymonxymon4.2.0
xymonxymon4.2.2
xymonxymon4.2.3
xymonxymon4.3.0
xymonxymon4.3.1
xymonxymon4.3.2
xymonxymon4.3.3
xymonxymon4.3.4
xymonxymon4.3.5
xymonxymon4.3.6
xymonxymon4.3.7
xymonxymon4.3.8
xymonxymon4.3.9
xymonxymon4.3.10
xymonxymon4.3.11
xymonxymon4.3.12
xymonxymon4.3.13
xymonxymon4.3.14
xymonxymon4.3.15
xymonxymon4.3.16
xymonxymon4.3.17
xymonxymon4.3.18
xymonxymon4.3.19
xymonxymon4.3.20
xymonxymon4.3.21
xymonxymon4.3.22
xymonxymon4.3.23
xymonxymon4.3.24

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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