CVE-2018-8736

Summary

CVECVE-2018-8736
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-04-18 00:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
DescriptionA 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Nagios Nagios Xi All All All All
Application Nagios Nagios Xi All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Nagios XI 5.2.6 < 5.2.9 / 5.3 / 5.4 - Chained Remote Root - PHP webapps Exploit EXPLOIT-DB www.exploit-db.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE-2018-873X - NagiosXI Vulnerability Chaining; Death By a Thousand Cuts | Redacted Security Blog MISC blog.redactedsec.net Exploit, Release Notes, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
Nagios XI Change Log - Nagios MISC www.nagios.com Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
NagiosXI remote root vulnerability CVE-2018-8733, CVE-2018-8734, CVE-2018-8735, CVE-2018-8736 · GitHub MISC gist.github.com Third Party Advisory
Nagios XI 5.2.6-5.4.12 - Chained Remote Code Execution (Metasploit) EXPLOIT-DB www.exploit-db.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/CHANGES-5.TXT MISC assets.nagios.com Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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