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CVE-2026-73974: CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') in Linuxfabrik monitoring-plugins

0
Medium
VulnerabilityCVE-2026-73974cvecve-2026-73974cwe-22cwe-269
Published: 08/18/2026 (08/18/2026, 21:15:03 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Vendor/Project: Linuxfabrik
Product: monitoring-plugins

Description

linuxfabrik-lib provides Python modules for database access, caching, shell execution, and API integrations, and Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins uses its shared testing helper across check plugins. Prior to linuxfabrik-lib 6.1.0 and Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins 7.0.0, lib.lftest.test() treated the first or second element of a --test CSV argument as a filesystem path and returned the file contents as simulated standard output or standard error without path confinement. The hidden but production-accessible --test argument was accepted by sudo-authorized plugins, so an attacker controlling the nagios or icinga account could use check-plugins/deb-updates/deb-updates with its default QUERY=1 to disclose every line of a root-readable file. Approximately 22 other plugins exposed filtered content or a root file existence and readability oracle through the same helper, while check-plugins/network-bonding/network-bonding and check-plugins/openstack-swift-stat/openstack-swift-stat had direct read paths that bypassed the helper. The library fix confines fixture reads to the invoking plugin's unit-test directory and refuses unsafe anchors, and the plugin fix routes the two bypasses through that helper. These issues are fixed in linuxfabrik-lib 6.1.0 and Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins 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: 6a84d00bc6e8be0332c73b0b

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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