CVE-2016-9565

CRITICAL

Nagios < 4.2.1 - Improper Access Control

Title source: rule

Description

MagpieRSS, as used in the front-end component in Nagios Core before 4.2.2 might allow remote attackers to read or write to arbitrary files by spoofing a crafted response from the Nagios RSS feed server. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-4796.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED

by Dawid Golunski · pythonremotelinux

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40920

View Code ZIP pw:eip

References (16)

[Vendor Advisory] http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0259.html

[Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/140169/Nagios-Core-Curl-Command-Injection-Code-Execution.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0211.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0212.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0213.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0214.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0258.html

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Dec/57

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94922

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037488

[Exploit, Third Party Advisory] https://legalhackers.com/advisories/Nagios-Exploit-Command-Injection-CVE-2016-9565-2008-4796.html

[Vendor Advisory] https://www.nagios.org/projects/nagios-core/history/4x/

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/539925/100/0/threaded

[Exploit, Third Party Advisory] https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40920/

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-26

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-20

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8

EPSS 0.1994

EPSS Percentile 95.5%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-284

Status published

Products (1)

nagios/nagios < 4.2.1

Published Dec 15, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026