CVE-2021-38156: In Nagios XI before 5.8.6, XSS exists in the dashboard page (/dashboards/#) when administrative users attempt to edit a dashboard

Medium severity · published Sep 15, 2021

CVE-2021-38156

In Nagios XI before 5.8.6, XSS exists in the dashboard page (/dashboards/#) when administrative users attempt to edit a dashboard

5.4

CVSS

92.9%

EPSS

On KEV

Description

In Nagios XI before 5.8.6, XSS exists in the dashboard page (/dashboards/#) when administrative users attempt to edit a dashboard.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack vector

Network

Complexity

Low

Privileges

Low

User interaction

Required

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

Scope

Changed

Exploitation

Is it being used?

Exploit prediction (EPSS)92.9% · higher than 100% of CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet

CISA KEVNot listed

Ransomware campaign useNot known

Affected products

Which versions

Nagios XI · Nagios

before 5.8.6 · source: NVD

Affected product

Nagios XI

Nagios

All Nagios XI CVEs

References

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38156

CVE.org

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-38156

Exploit

https://raxis.com/blog/cve-2021-38156

Release Notes

https://www.nagios.com/downloads/nagios-xi/change-log/