CVE-2013-7205

Summary

CVECVE-2013-7205
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-01-15 16:08:04 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionOff-by-one error in the process_cgivars function in contrib/daemonchk.c in Nagios Core 3.5.1, 4.0.2, and earlier allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service (crash) via a long string in the last key value in the variable list, which triggers a heap-based buffer over-read.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.4 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

EPSS: 0.023970000 probability, percentile 0.850990000 (date 2026-05-01)

Problem Types: CWE-119 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Nagios Nagios 3.0 All All All
Application Nagios Nagios 3.0 alpha1 All All
Application Nagios Nagios 3.0 alpha2 All All
Application Nagios Nagios 3.0 alpha3 All All
Application Nagios Nagios 3.0 alpha4 All All
Application Nagios Nagios 3.0 alpha5 All All
Application Nagios Nagios 3.0 beta1 All All
Application Nagios Nagios 3.0 beta2 All All
Application Nagios Nagios 3.0 beta3 All All
Application Nagios Nagios 3.0 beta4 All All
Application Nagios Nagios 3.0 beta5 All All
Application Nagios Nagios 3.0 beta6 All All
Application Nagios Nagios 3.0 beta7 All All
Application Nagios Nagios 3.0 rc1 All All
Application Nagios Nagios 3.0 rc2 All All
Application Nagios Nagios 3.0 rc3 All All
Application Nagios Nagios 3.0.1 All All All
Application Nagios Nagios 3.0.2 All All All
Application Nagios Nagios 3.0.3 All All All
Application Nagios Nagios 3.0.4 All All All
Application Nagios Nagios 3.0.5 All All All
Application Nagios Nagios 3.0.6 All All All
Application Nagios Nagios 3.1.0 All All All
Application Nagios Nagios 3.1.1 All All All
Application Nagios Nagios 3.1.2 All All All
Application Nagios Nagios 3.2.0 All All All
Application Nagios Nagios 3.2.1 All All All
Application Nagios Nagios 3.2.2 All All All
Application Nagios Nagios 3.2.3 All All All
Application Nagios Nagios 3.3.1 All All All
Application Nagios Nagios 3.4.0 All All All
Application Nagios Nagios 3.4.1 All All All
Application Nagios Nagios 3.4.2 All All All
Application Nagios Nagios 3.4.3 All All All
Application Nagios Nagios 3.5.1 All All All
Application Nagios Nagios All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-security - Re: CVE request: denial of service in Nagios (process_cgivars()) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
Security Advisory SA55976 - Nagios "process_cgivars()" Off-By-One Vulnerabilities - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Nagios Core / Nagios Core / Commit [d97e03] af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sourceforge.net
Nagios 'process_cgivars()' Function Off-By-One Error Denial Of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2014:004 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
[SECURITY] [DLA 1615-1] nagios3 security update af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.debian.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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