Vulnerability · Published Jun 29, 2022 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2022-29271
Medium 6.5
In plain English
A medium-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 2.0% (higher than 81% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)6.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)2.0%top 18.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official 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.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://www.nagios.com/downloads/nagios-xi/change-log/ x_refsource_MISC
- https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/CHANGES-5.TXT x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/4LPH4-NL/CVEs x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/sT0wn-nl/CVEs/blob/master/README.md#nagios-xi x_refsource_MISC