CVE-2020-15903

CRITICAL

Nagios XI < 5.7.3 - Privilege Escalation via Editable Included Files

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was found in Nagios XI before 5.7.3. There is a privilege escalation vulnerability in backend scripts that ran as root where some included files were editable by nagios user. This issue was fixed in version 5.7.3.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.nagios.com/downloads/nagios-xi/change-log/

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0698
EPSS Percentile 91.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (1)
nagios/nagios_xi < 5.7.3
Published Sep 09, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026