CVE-2016-10089: Nagios

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Nagios 4.3.2 and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges via a hard link attack on the Nagios init script file, related to CVE-2016-8641.

Affected products

• Nagios Nagios: up to and including 4.2.4

Published 2017-02-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.