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CVE-2017-16834

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-11-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-732

Description

PNP4Nagios through 0.6.26 has /usr/bin/npcd and npcd.cfg owned by an unprivileged account but root code execution depends on these files, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to this unprivileged account.

Affected products

• Pnp4Nagios: through 0.6.26

References

• https://github.com/lingej/pnp4nagios/issues/140
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201806-09
• https://github.com/lingej/pnp4nagios/issues/140
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201806-09

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