ubuntu-cve-2017-16933
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2017-11-24 05:29
Modified
2025-10-24 04:46
Summary
Details

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.

Severity
7.0 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "icinga2",
            "binary_version": "2.4.1-2ubuntu1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "icinga2-bin",
            "binary_version": "2.4.1-2ubuntu1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "icinga2-classicui",
            "binary_version": "2.4.1-2ubuntu1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "icinga2-common",
            "binary_version": "2.4.1-2ubuntu1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "icinga2-ido-mysql",
            "binary_version": "2.4.1-2ubuntu1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "icinga2-ido-pgsql",
            "binary_version": "2.4.1-2ubuntu1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "icinga2-studio",
            "binary_version": "2.4.1-2ubuntu1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libicinga2",
            "binary_version": "2.4.1-2ubuntu1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "vim-icinga2",
            "binary_version": "2.4.1-2ubuntu1"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS",
        "name": "icinga2",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/icinga2@2.4.1-2ubuntu1?arch=source\u0026distro=xenial"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "2.3.8-1build1",
        "2.3.11-1",
        "2.4.0-1",
        "2.4.1-1",
        "2.4.1-2",
        "2.4.1-2ubuntu1"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "icinga2",
            "binary_version": "2.8.1-0ubuntu2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "icinga2-bin",
            "binary_version": "2.8.1-0ubuntu2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "icinga2-classicui",
            "binary_version": "2.8.1-0ubuntu2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "icinga2-common",
            "binary_version": "2.8.1-0ubuntu2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "icinga2-ido-mysql",
            "binary_version": "2.8.1-0ubuntu2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "icinga2-ido-pgsql",
            "binary_version": "2.8.1-0ubuntu2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "icinga2-studio",
            "binary_version": "2.8.1-0ubuntu2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libicinga2",
            "binary_version": "2.8.1-0ubuntu2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "vim-icinga2",
            "binary_version": "2.8.1-0ubuntu2"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:18.04:LTS",
        "name": "icinga2",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/icinga2@2.8.1-0ubuntu2?arch=source\u0026distro=bionic"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "2.7.0-1",
        "2.8.1-0ubuntu2"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16933",
  "modified": "2025-10-24T04:46:36Z",
  "published": "2017-11-24T05:29:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-16933"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2/issues/5793"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-16933"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2017-16933"
  ]
}



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