# CVE-2026-73973: Linuxfabrik Monitoring Plugins: Arbitrary root file disclosure via unconfined --filename in logfile plugin (sudoers LPE)

- Severity: CVSS 5.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 7.0.0
- Published: 2026-08-18 · Updated: 2026-08-19

## Affected

- Linuxfabrik monitoring-plugins: fixed in 7.0.0

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Linuxfabrik monitoring-plugins, upgrade to a fixed version (7.0.0) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/Linuxfabrik/monitoring-plugins/security/advisories/GHSA-f54c-p5vg-mr5c
- https://github.com/Linuxfabrik/monitoring-plugins/commit/a0ca1268d84e0caf10442b9c7477d699b52d1c92
- https://github.com/Linuxfabrik/monitoring-plugins/blob/ae486fc629e1ca9373e1b6dd5e395603ee453bbc/CHANGELOG.md#v700---2026-08-14
- https://github.com/Linuxfabrik/monitoring-plugins/releases/tag/v7.0.0

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