High severity · published Apr 18, 2018
CVE-2018-8736
A 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
8.8
CVSS
45.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A 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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/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)45.6% · higher than 99% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
NX
Nagios XI · Nagios
5.2.0 before 5.4.13 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8736
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-8736
Release Notes
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/CHANGES-5.TXT
Exploit
https://blog.redactedsec.net/exploits/2018/04/26/nagios.html
Third Party Advisory
https://gist.github.com/caleBot/f0a93b5a98574393e0139104eacc2d0f
Exploit
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44560/
Exploit
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44969/
Release Notes
https://www.nagios.com/downloads/nagios-xi/change-log/
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