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CVE-2017-16933
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.0 v3.0)
- 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: yes
- Published: 2017-11-24 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-732
Description
etc/initsystem/prepare-dirs in Icinga 2.x through 2.8.1 has a chown call for a filename in a user-writable directory, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to the $ICINGA2_USER account for creation of a link.
Affected products
- icinga2: from 2.0.0 through 2.8.0
References
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