CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-5796

7.8 HIGH Published 2020-11-13 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-11-13
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-281

Description

Improper preservation of permissions in Nagios XI 5.7.4 allows a local, low-privileged, authenticated user to weaken the permissions of files, resulting in low-privileged users being able to write to and execute arbitrary PHP code with root privileges.

Affected configurations

• nagios nagios xi 5.7.4

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-281 Improper Preservation of Permissions weakness

References