Nagios XI < 5.8 Privilege Escalatioon

critical Nessus Plugin ID 150057

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Synopsis

The remote host has a web application affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability.

Description

Creation of a Temporary Directory with Insecure Permissions in Nagios XI 5.7.5 and earlier allows for Privilege Escalation via creation of symlinks, which are mishandled in getprofile.sh.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to Nagios XI 5.8.0 or above.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 150057

File Name: nagiosxi_5_8.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: combined

Agent: unix

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 5/28/2021

Updated: 12/27/2023

Configuration: Enable thorough checks

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-28910

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:nagios:nagios_xi

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/8/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/8/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-28910

IAVB: 2021-B-0030

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