CVE-2020-36857 (GCVE-0-2020-36857)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-10-30 21:31
Modified
2025-10-31 17:44
Severity ?
8.6 (High) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
  • CWE-89 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')
Summary
Nagios XI versions prior to 5.6.14 contain a post-authentication SQL injection vulnerability in the SNMP Trap Interface page. Exploitation requires an account with administrative privileges to access the affected interface. A user with administrative access could supply crafted input that is not properly sanitized, allowing SQL injection that may lead to unauthorized disclosure or modification of application data or execution of arbitrary SQL commands against the backend database.
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