CVE-2020-5796

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.

CVSS v3.1

7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

7.2 HIGHAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS

1.95% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 79th percentile

Published

2020-11-13

Updated

2024-08-04

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

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

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2020-5795
• CVE-2020-5797
• CVE-2020-5792
• CVE-2020-5798
• CVE-2020-5791
• CVE-2020-5803