# CVE-2018-6533: An issue was discovered in Icinga 2.x through 2.8.1.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-02-27 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in Icinga 2.x through 2.8.1. By editing the init.conf file, Icinga 2 can be run as root. Following this the program can be used to run arbitrary code as root. This was fixed by no longer using init.conf to determine account information for any root-executed code (a larger issue than CVE-2017-16933).

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2/pull/5850

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