CVE-2018-8736 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability in Nagios XI 5.2.x through 5.4.x before 5.4.13 allows an attacker to leverage an RCE vulnerability escalating to root.

Published: 2018-04-18

Score: 8.8 High

EPSS: 45.6% Moderate

KEV: No

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:nagios:nagios_xi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.45628.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/CHANGES-5.TXT
https://blog.redactedsec.net/exploits/2018/04/26/nagios.html
https://gist.github.com/caleBot/f0a93b5a98574393e0139104eacc2d0f
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44560/
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44969/
https://www.nagios.com/downloads/nagios-xi/change-log/

History

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Subscriptions

Nagios Nagios Xi

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-04-18T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T07:02:26.073Z

Reserved: 2018-03-15T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-8736

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-04-18T00:29:00.487

Modified: 2026-06-17T02:05:19.123

Link: CVE-2018-8736

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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