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CVE-2016-8641

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.7 EPSS 1.14% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2018-08-01 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

AI analysis pending.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

GitHub PoC Links
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External Security References
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CVE
CVE-2016-8641
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.7
EPSS
1.14%

Original NVD Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability was found in nagios 4.2.x that occurs in daemon-init.in when creating necessary files and insecurely changing the ownership afterwards. It's possible for the local attacker to create symbolic links before the files are to be created and possibly escalating the privileges with the ownership change.