VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-3457

low
Published 2012-08-12 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
2.1

Description

PNP4Nagios 0.6 through 0.6.16 uses world-readable permissions for process_perfdata.cfg, which allows local users to obtain the Gearman shared secret by reading the file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
pnp4nagiospnp4nagios0.6.0
pnp4nagiospnp4nagios0.6.1
pnp4nagiospnp4nagios0.6.2
pnp4nagiospnp4nagios0.6.3
pnp4nagiospnp4nagios0.6.4
pnp4nagiospnp4nagios0.6.5
pnp4nagiospnp4nagios0.6.6
pnp4nagiospnp4nagios0.6.7
pnp4nagiospnp4nagios0.6.10
pnp4nagiospnp4nagios0.6.11
pnp4nagiospnp4nagios0.6.12
pnp4nagiospnp4nagios0.6.13
pnp4nagiospnp4nagios0.6.14
pnp4nagiospnp4nagios0.6.15
pnp4nagiospnp4nagios0.6.16

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.