Critical severity · published Sep 9, 2020
CVE-2020-15903
An issue was found in Nagios XI before 5.7.3
9.8
CVSS
5.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was found in Nagios XI before 5.7.3. There is a privilege escalation vulnerability in backend scripts that ran as root where some included files were editable by nagios user. This issue was fixed in version 5.7.3.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)5.5% · higher than 93% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
NX
Nagios XI · Nagios
before 5.7.3 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15903
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-15903
Vendor Advisory
https://www.nagios.com/downloads/nagios-xi/change-log/
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