VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2020-6581
This can cause command injection.
HIGH 7.3EPSS 1.61%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.61%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Nagios NRPE 3.2.1 has Insufficient Filtering because, for example, nasty_metachars interprets \n as the character \ and the character n (not as the \n newline sequence). This can cause command injection.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.3 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.61% probability · 75th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- nagios/remote plug in executor · fedoraproject/fedora
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://herolab.usd.de/security-advisories/Third Party Advisory
- https://herolab.usd.de/security-advisories/usd-2020-0002/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2DNGKXVDB43E3KQRA6W5QZT3Z46XZLQM/
- https://herolab.usd.de/security-advisories/Third Party Advisory
- https://herolab.usd.de/security-advisories/usd-2020-0002/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2DNGKXVDB43E3KQRA6W5QZT3Z46XZLQM/
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.