CVE-2020-5796 - Improper preservation of permissions in Nagios XI 5.7.4 allows a local, low-privileged, authenticate

CVE-2020-5796

Summary

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.

References

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

Vulnerable Configurations

cpe:2.3:a:nagios:nagios_xi:5.7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:nagios:nagios_xi:5.7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS

Base:	7.2 (as of 24-11-2020 - 21:54)
Impact:
Exploitability:

CWE

CWE-281

CAPEC

Access

Vector	Complexity	Authentication
LOCAL	LOW	NONE

Impact

Confidentiality	Integrity	Availability
COMPLETE	COMPLETE	COMPLETE

cvss-vector via4

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

refmap via4

misc

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

Last major update

24-11-2020 - 21:54

Published

13-11-2020 - 20:15

Last modified

24-11-2020 - 21:54