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CVE-2020-6581 Details

Description

Nagios NRPE 3.2.1 has Insufficient Filtering because, for example, nasty_metachars interprets \n as the character \ and the character n (not as the \n newline sequence). This can cause command injection.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:7.3 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://herolab.usd.de/security-advisories/ CVEThird Party Advisory
https://herolab.usd.de/security-advisories/usd-2020-0002/ CVEExploitThird Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2DNGKXVDB43E3KQRA6W5QZT3Z46XZLQM/ CVE
https://herolab.usd.de/security-advisories/ [email protected]Third Party Advisory
https://herolab.usd.de/security-advisories/usd-2020-0002/ [email protected]ExploitThird Party Advisory

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Weakness Enumeration

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

Affected Products

ProductVersions
nagios remote plug in executor
3.2.1

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:nagios:remote_plug_in_executor:3.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
fedoraproject fedora
32

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

8 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2020-6581
NVD Published Date:
Mar 16, 2020
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2020-6581 Details - Not Deferred