CVE-2013-10073 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2013-10073

Nagios XI < 2012R1.6 Auto-Discovery Shell Command Injection

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • James Clawson

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

XI
Vulnerable Versions:
0

Timeline

Official Publish: October 30th, 2025
Last Modified: November 17th, 2025
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-78

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Initial Access
T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter
Execution
T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
Privilege Escalation
T1005 Data from Local System
Collection
T1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Exfiltration