CVE-2020-5792 (GCVE-0-2020-5792)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-10-20 21:18 – Updated: 2024-08-04 08:39
VLAI
Summary
Improper neutralization of argument delimiters in a command in Nagios XI 5.7.3 allows a remote, authenticated admin user to write to arbitrary files and ultimately execute code with the privileges of the apache user.
Severity
7.2 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Authenticated OS Command Argument Injection
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a Nagios XI Affected: 5.7.3
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