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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-10553

A registered user is able to use directory traversal to read local files, as demonstrated by URIs beginning with index.php?xiwindow=./ and config/?xiwindow=../ substrings.

MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 38.4%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 38.4%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

An issue was discovered in Nagios XI 5.4.13. A registered user is able to use directory traversal to read local files, as demonstrated by URIs beginning with index.php?xiwindow=./ and config/?xiwindow=../ substrings.

CVSS 3.0
6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS
38.37% probability · 99th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-22
Affected
nagios/nagios xi
Source
cve@mitre.org
EPSS trend
0%20%40%21 September 2026: 30.04%22 September 2026: 38.96%27 October 2026: 38.37%21 September 202627 October 2026

EPSS moved from 30.0% on 21 September 2026 to 38.4% on 27 October 2026, peaking at 39.0% on 22 September 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.