High severity7.8OSV Advisory· Published Feb 27, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-6533
CVE-2018-6533
Description
An issue was discovered in Icinga 2.x through 2.8.1. By editing the init.conf file, Icinga 2 can be run as root. Following this the program can be used to run arbitrary code as root. This was fixed by no longer using init.conf to determine account information for any root-executed code (a larger issue than CVE-2017-16933).
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References
1- github.com/Icinga/icinga2/pull/5850nvdThird Party Advisory
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