CVE-2016-9565

critical

Description

MagpieRSS, as used in the front-end component in Nagios Core before 4.2.2 might allow remote attackers to read or write to arbitrary files by spoofing a crafted response from the Nagios RSS feed server. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-4796.

References

Advisories
More

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94922

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Dec/57

https://www.nagios.org/projects/nagios-core/history/4x/

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40920/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-20

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-26

https://legalhackers.com/advisories/Nagios-Exploit-Command-Injection-CVE-2016-9565-2008-4796.html

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2016-10371

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037488

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/539925/100/0/threaded

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0259.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0258.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0214.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0213.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0212.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0211.html

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/140169/Nagios-Core-Curl-Command-Injection-Code-Execution.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-12-15

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.26425