CVE-2013-4215: Nagios Plugins

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The IPXPING_COMMAND in contrib/check_ipxping.c in Nagios Plugins 1.4.16 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on /tmp/ipxping/ipxping.

Affected products

  • Nagios Plugins: version 1.4.16 only

Published 2014-05-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.