Vulnerability · Published Jan 13, 2021 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-35578
High 7.2
In plain English
A high-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 81.9% (higher than 99.7% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Metasploit.
Severity (CVSS NVD)7.2High
Exploit odds (30 days)81.9%top 0.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack tooling1Metasploit
Official description
An issue was discovered in the Manage Plugins page in Nagios XI before 5.8.0. Because the line-ending conversion feature is mishandled during a plugin upload, a remote, authenticated admin user can execute operating-system commands.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://www.nagios.com/downloads/nagios-xi/change-log/ x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.nagios.com/products/security/ x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160948/Nagios-XI-5.7.x-Remote-Code-Execution.html x_refsource_MISC
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162207/Nagios-XI-Remote-Code-Execution.html x_refsource_MISC