High severity · published Oct 30, 2025
CVE-2013-10073
Nagios XI < 2012R1.6 Auto-Discovery Shell Command Injection
8.8
CVSS
3.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Nagios XI versions prior to 2012R1.6 contain a shell command injection vulnerability in the Auto-Discovery tool. User-controlled input is passed to a shell without adequate sanitation or argument quoting, allowing an authenticated user with access to discovery functionality to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the application service.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.4% · higher than 89% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
XI
XI · Nagios
before 2012R1.6 · source: vendor
NX
Nagios XI · Nagios
before 2012; 2012; 2012; 2012; 2012; 2012; +1 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-10073
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-10073
Release Notes
https://www.nagios.com/changelog/nagios-xi/
Third Party Advisory
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/nagios-xi-auto-discovery-shell-command-injection
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