Vulnerability · Published Sep 9, 2020 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-15903
Critical 9.8
In plain English
A critical-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 5.5% (higher than 93% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)9.8Critical
Exploit odds (30 days)5.5%top 7.1% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official 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.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://www.nagios.com/downloads/nagios-xi/change-log/ x_refsource_CONFIRM