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High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Dec 15, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-9566

CVE-2016-9566

Description

base/logging.c in Nagios Core before 4.2.4 allows local users with access to an account in the nagios group to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the log file. NOTE: this can be leveraged by remote attackers using CVE-2016-9565.

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