CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-2913

7.5 HIGH Published 2014-05-07 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2014-05-07
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in nrpe.c in Nagios Remote Plugin Executor (NRPE) 2.15 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a newline character in the -a option to libexec/check_nrpe. NOTE: this issue is disputed by multiple parties. It has been reported that the vendor allows newlines as "expected behavior." Also, this issue can only occur when the administrator enables the "dont_blame_nrpe" option in nrpe.conf despite the "HIGH security risk" warning within the comments

Affected configurations

• nagios remote plugin executor (<= 2.15) • opensuse opensuse 11.4 • opensuse opensuse 12.3 • opensuse opensuse 13.1

References