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CVE-2016-10089

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-02-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Nagios 4.3.2 and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges via a hard link attack on the Nagios init script file, related to CVE-2016-8641.

Affected products

• Nagios Enterprises nagios: through 4.2.4

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/30/6
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95171
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/30/6
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95171

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