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ubuntu-cve-2014-2913 Withdrawn 2025-07-18

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2014-05-07 10:55

Modified

2025-07-16 04:50

Summary

Details

** DISPUTED ** Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in nrpe.c in Nagios Remote Plugin Executor (NRPE) 2.15 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a newline character in the -a option to libexec/check_nrpe. NOTE: this issue is disputed by multiple parties. It has been reported that the vendor allows newlines as "expected behavior." Also, this issue can only occur when the administrator enables the "dont_blame_nrpe" option in nrpe.conf despite the "HIGH security risk" warning within the comments.

Severity

N/A (UNKNOWN)

low

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-2913	REPORT
	http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Apr/240	REPORT
	http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Apr/242	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-2913	REPORT

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CVE-2014-2913 (GCVE-0-2014-2913)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-05-07 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 10:28 Disputed

Summary

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in nrpe.c in Nagios Remote Plugin Executor (NRPE) 2.15 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a newline character in the -a option to libexec/check_nrpe. NOTE: this issue is disputed by multiple parties. It has been reported that the vendor allows newlines as "expected behavior." Also, this issue can only occur when the administrator enables the "dont_blame_nrpe" option in nrpe.conf despite the "HIGH security risk" warning within the comments

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

9 references

URL	Tags
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66969	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/155	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-0…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/154	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Apr/240	mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Apr/242	mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC

Date Public

2014-04-17 00:00

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