CVE-2020-5796
HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: November 13, 2020 at 07:55 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:22 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorNagios XI
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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
Description
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.
References (1)
x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2020-61CVSS
- Attack Vector
- LOCAL
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- LOW
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-281
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