CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-8736
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-04-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• nagios nagios xi (>= 5.2.0 < 5.4.13)
References
- https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/CHANGES-5.TXT Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://blog.redactedsec.net/exploits/2018/04/26/nagios.html Exploit, Release Notes, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://gist.github.com/caleBot/f0a93b5a98574393e0139104eacc2d0f Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44560/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44969/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.nagios.com/downloads/nagios-xi/change-log/ Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/CHANGES-5.TXT Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://blog.redactedsec.net/exploits/2018/04/26/nagios.html Exploit, Release Notes, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://gist.github.com/caleBot/f0a93b5a98574393e0139104eacc2d0f Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44560/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44969/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.nagios.com/downloads/nagios-xi/change-log/ Release Notes, Vendor Advisory