Nagios NDOUtils before 2.1.4 allows privilege escalation from nagios to root because certain executable files are owned by the nagios user.

Description

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

References

• https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/ndoutils/pull/65
• https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/ndoutils/commit/18ef12037f4a68772d6840cbaa08aa2da07d2891
• https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/ndoutils/compare/ndoutils-2.1.3...ndoutils-2.1.4