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CVE-2018-8736

Published: 18 April 2018

A privilege escalation vulnerability in Nagios XI 5.2.x through 5.4.x before 5.4.13 allows an attacker to leverage an RCE vulnerability escalating to root.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur 
No indication that these issues also affect open-source Nagios
3.x.

Priority

High

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
nagios3
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian 		artful Not vulnerable

trusty Does not exist
(trusty was not-affected)
upstream Needs triage

xenial Not vulnerable

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 8.8
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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