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CVE-2026-52817: Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins Sudoers: /usr/bin/apt-get arguments allow privilege escalation

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.0 v4.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-08-18 · updated 2026-10-22
• Weakness: CWE-88

Description

Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins provides monitoring plugins for Icinga, Nagios, and related systems. Prior to version 5.1.0, the shipped assets/sudoers/Debian.sudoers policy allowed the nagios or icinga account to execute /usr/bin/apt-get as root without restricting its arguments. An attacker who already controls that monitoring account can supply the APT::Update::Pre-Invoke option to execute an arbitrary command while apt-get runs with root privileges, resulting in a root shell and complete compromise of the host. The vulnerable rule supports the check-plugins/deb-updates/deb-updates plugin, but it authorized arbitrary apt-get argument sequences rather than only the required apt-get update --quiet 2 command. This issue is fixed in version 5.1.0.

Affected products

• Linuxfabrik monitoring-plugins: before 5.1.0

References

• https://github.com/Linuxfabrik/monitoring-plugins/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#v510---2026-05-30
• https://github.com/Linuxfabrik/monitoring-plugins/commit/694b5daeebadc9a51428f3de1acff7b1f737642f
• https://github.com/Linuxfabrik/monitoring-plugins/releases/tag/v5.1.0
• https://github.com/Linuxfabrik/monitoring-plugins/security/advisories/GHSA-8w6w-23mq-h8rg
• https://github.com/Linuxfabrik/monitoring-plugins/security/advisories/GHSA-8w6w-23mq-h8rg

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