CVE-2022-29271

MEDIUM

Nagios XI <5.8.5 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In Nagios XI through 5.8.5, a read-only Nagios user (due to an incorrect permission check) is able to schedule downtime for any host/services. This allows an attacker to permanently disable all monitoring checks.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.nagios.com/downloads/nagios-xi/change-log/
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/CHANGES-5.TXT
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/4LPH4-NL/CVEs

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0054
EPSS Percentile 67.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-863
Status published
Products (1)
nagios/nagios_xi < 5.8.5
Published Jun 29, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026