CVE-2026-73973

Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins provides monitoring plugins for Icinga, Nagios, and related systems. Prior to version 7.0.0, check-plugins/logfile/logfile accepted a free-form --filename path and opened it as root when invoked through the shipped nagios or icinga sudoers allowlist, without confining the resolved path to /var/log. An attacker who controls the monitoring account can select a root-readable file such as /etc/shadow and use --warning-regex . while leaving SUPPRESS_OUTPUT false, causing each nonempty line to be collected in warn_matches and returned through lib.base.oao(). The vulnerable flow passes the expanded scan_path directly to open(), and neither real-path containment nor an allowlist protects the sink. The same fix also confines mysql-logfile and openvpn-client-list paths, allows only documented log roots, and resolves symlinks and parent-directory traversal before checking containment. This issue is fixed in version 7.0.0.
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Published : 2026-08-18 22:17

Updated : 2026-09-09 21:13


NVD link : CVE-2026-73973

Mitre link : CVE-2026-73973

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-73973


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CWE
CWE-22

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

CWE-269

Improper Privilege Management