Security context
What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.
Linuxfabrik/monitoring-plugins
main @ 6455622
9
Fixes
0
CVEs
HIGH
Peak severity
71.4%
Coverage
Highlights
Information Disclosure: 2 prior fixes. Scrutinize any change in this area.
check-plugins: most-fixed (2 issues). Treat as high-risk during review.
2 high-severity fixes in this history; regressions here are high-impact.
Recurring patterns
The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.
Command Injection: The project executes external commands to perform monitoring checks. Executing these as shell strings allows argument injection; transitioning to structured argv lists prevents malicious parameter manipulation.
Privilege Escalation: Sudoers configurations that grant over-privileged execution of system tools (like apt-get) without strict argument constraints can allow local users to escalate privileges to root.
Insecure Temporary File: The use of predictable, hardcoded temporary file paths in public directories exposes the application to symlink attacks, file pre-creation races, and local data tampering.