CVE-2020-5796

HIGH

Nagios XI <5.7.4 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Improper preservation of permissions in Nagios XI 5.7.4 allows a local, low-privileged, authenticated user to weaken the permissions of files, resulting in low-privileged users being able to write to and execute arbitrary PHP code with root privileges.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2020-61

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0193
EPSS Percentile 77.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-281
Status published
Products (1)
nagios/nagios_xi 5.7.4
Published Nov 13, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026