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CVE-2018-8736
A privilege escalation vulnerability in Nagios XI 5.2.x through 5.4.x...
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- https://gist.github.com/caleBot/f0a93b5a98574393e0139104eacc2d0f
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44560/
- https://www.nagios.com/downloads/nagios-xi/change-log/
- https://blog.redactedsec.net/exploits/2018/04/26/nagios.html
- https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/CHANGES-5.TXT
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44969/
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Affected Vendor
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View all reports →Affected Software
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Vulnerable Versions:
5.2.0
Timeline
Official Publish:
April 18th, 2018
Last Modified:
August 5th, 2024
Added to House:
July 20th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.