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CVE-2018-8736 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:8.8 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/CHANGES-5.TXT CVERelease NotesVendor Advisory
https://blog.redactedsec.net/exploits/2018/04/26/nagios.html CVEExploitRelease NotesTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory
https://gist.github.com/caleBot/f0a93b5a98574393e0139104eacc2d0f CVEThird Party Advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44560/ CVEExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44969/ CVEExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

see all 12 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
NVD-CWE-noinfoInsufficient Information to Classify Weakness[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
nagios nagios xi
>= 5.2.0, < 5.4.13

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:nagios:nagios_xi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

8 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2018-8736
NVD Published Date:
Apr 18, 2018
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2018-8736 Details - Not Deferred