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CVE-2026-73973: CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') in Linuxfabrik monitoring-plugins

0
Medium
VulnerabilityCVE-2026-73973cvecve-2026-73973cwe-22cwe-269
Published: 08/18/2026 (08/18/2026, 21:12:27 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Vendor/Project: Linuxfabrik
Product: monitoring-plugins

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.

CVSS v3.1

Score 5.5medium

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Technical Details

Data Version
5.2
Assigner Short Name
GitHub_M
Date Reserved
2026-08-13T21:42:04.044Z
Cvss Version
3.1
State
PUBLISHED
Remediation Level
null

Threat ID: 6a84d00bc6e8be0332c73b09

Added to database: 08/18/2026, 21:35:07 UTC

Last updated: 08/18/2026, 21:35:07 UTC

Views: 1

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