Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins provides monitoring plugins for Icinga, Nagios, and related systems. Prior to version 5.1.0, the shipped assets/sudoers/Debian.sudoers policy allowed the nagios or icinga account to execute /usr/bin/apt-get as root without restricting its arguments. An attacker who already controls that monitoring account can supply the APT::Update::Pre-Invoke option to execute an arbitrary command while apt-get runs with root privileges, resulting in a root shell and complete compromise of the host. The vulnerable rule supports the check-plugins/deb-updates/deb-updates plugin, but it authorized arbitrary apt-get argument sequences rather than only the required apt-get update --quiet 2 command. This issue is fixed in version 5.1.0.
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GHSA-8w6w-23mq-h8rg | Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins: Sudoers may be able to obtain privilege escalation via /usr/bin/apt-get arguments |
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Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0000
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| Description | Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins provides monitoring plugins for Icinga, Nagios, and related systems. Prior to version 5.1.0, the shipped assets/sudoers/Debian.sudoers policy allowed the nagios or icinga account to execute /usr/bin/apt-get as root without restricting its arguments. An attacker who already controls that monitoring account can supply the APT::Update::Pre-Invoke option to execute an arbitrary command while apt-get runs with root privileges, resulting in a root shell and complete compromise of the host. The vulnerable rule supports the check-plugins/deb-updates/deb-updates plugin, but it authorized arbitrary apt-get argument sequences rather than only the required apt-get update --quiet 2 command. This issue is fixed in version 5.1.0. | |
| Title | Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins Sudoers: /usr/bin/apt-get arguments allow privilege escalation | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-88 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-08-18T20:53:22.189Z
Reserved: 2026-06-08T18:11:06.660Z
Link: CVE-2026-52817
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-18T21:16:34.820
Modified: 2026-08-18T21:16:34.820
Link: CVE-2026-52817
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