Vulnerability · Published Nov 13, 2020 · Assigned by tenable
CVE-2020-5796
High 7.8
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in Nagios XI. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 2.0% (higher than 80% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)2.0%top 19.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official 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.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2020-61 x_refsource_MISC