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    CVE-2020-5796

    Improper preservation of permissions in Nagios XI 5.7.4 allows a local, low-privileged, authenticated user to weaken the permissions of files, resulting in low-privileged users being able to write to and execute arbitrary PHP code with root privileges.

    Published:Nov 13, 2020
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:Nov 13, 2020
    EPSS Score:0.00111
    CVSS Score:7.8

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Nagios
    Product
    Nagios Xi

    Exploits

    https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2020-61https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2020-61

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High