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Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:30:00 +0000
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| Description | Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins provides monitoring plugins for Icinga, Nagios, and related systems. Prior to version 7.0.0, check-plugins/logfile/logfile accepted a free-form --filename path and opened it as root when invoked through the shipped nagios or icinga sudoers allowlist, without confining the resolved path to /var/log. An attacker who controls the monitoring account can select a root-readable file such as /etc/shadow and use --warning-regex . while leaving SUPPRESS_OUTPUT false, causing each nonempty line to be collected in warn_matches and returned through lib.base.oao(). The vulnerable flow passes the expanded scan_path directly to open(), and neither real-path containment nor an allowlist protects the sink. The same fix also confines mysql-logfile and openvpn-client-list paths, allows only documented log roots, and resolves symlinks and parent-directory traversal before checking containment. This issue is fixed in version 7.0.0. | |
| Title | Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins: Arbitrary root file disclosure via unconfined --filename in logfile plugin (sudoers LPE) | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-22 CWE-269 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-08-18T21:12:27.664Z
Reserved: 2026-08-13T21:42:04.044Z
Link: CVE-2026-73973
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-18T22:17:33.667
Modified: 2026-08-18T22:17:33.667
Link: CVE-2026-73973
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