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CVE-2014-8994

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-11-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-18

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-*-*).

Affected products

• Check Diskio Project Check Diskio: through 3.2.5

References

• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/679
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/701
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71208
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98849
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/679
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/701
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71208
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98849

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