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Zabbix "UserParameter" Privilege Escalation Weakness
Secunia Advisory: SA27903
Release Date: 2007-12-03
Last Update: 2007-12-12
Popularity: 5,459 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:ZABBIX 1.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A weakness has been reported in Zabbix, which can be exploited by malicious users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges.

The weakness is caused due to the "daemon_start()" function in src/libs/zbxnix/daemon.c not correctly dropping the privileges. This can be exploited to e.g. execute "UserParameter" scripts as group "root".

This affects the agent for UNIX-like operating systems only.

The weakness is reported in version 1.4.2. Other versions may also be affected.

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