Vulnerability · Published Oct 20, 2020 · Assigned by tenable
CVE-2020-5791
High 7.2
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 78.6% (higher than 99.6% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Metasploit.
Severity (CVSS NVD)7.2High
Exploit odds (30 days)78.6%top 0.4% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack tooling1Metasploit
Official description
Improper neutralization of special elements used in an OS command in Nagios XI 5.7.3 allows a remote, authenticated admin user to execute operating system commands with the privileges of the apache user.