CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-29271
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-06-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-863
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 configurations
• nagios nagios xi (<= 5.8.5)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization weakness
References
- https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/CHANGES-5.TXT Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/4LPH4-NL/CVEs Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/sT0wn-nl/CVEs/blob/master/README.md#nagios-xi Third Party Advisory
- 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://github.com/4LPH4-NL/CVEs Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/sT0wn-nl/CVEs/blob/master/README.md#nagios-xi Third Party Advisory
- https://www.nagios.com/downloads/nagios-xi/change-log/ Release Notes, Vendor Advisory