Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Nagios XI - CVE-2020-15903
Published: September 4, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU46290
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-15903
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly impose security restrictions in backend scripts, which leads to security restrictions bypass and privilege escalation.
Affected software
Nagios XI
How to mitigate CVE-2020-15903
Install updates from vendor's website.
Nagios XI - update to 5.7.3