CVE Catalog

CVE-2018-25123

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.35%

27th percentile - higher than 27% of all known CVEs

Summary

Nagios XI versions prior to 5.5.7 contain a privilege escalation vulnerability in the MRTG graphing component. MRTG-related processes/scripts executed with excessive privileges, allowing a local attacker with limited system access to abuse file/command execution paths or writable resources to gain elevated privileges.

Risk Assessment

A local low-privileged attacker can escalate privileges to the service level or higher, potentially leading to full system compromise.

Recommendation

Upgrade Nagios XI to version 5.5.7 or later and review and restrict the privileges of MRTG processes and scripts.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Nagios XI versions prior to 5.5.7 contain a privilege escalation vulnerability in the MRTG graphing component. MRTG-related processes/scripts executed with excessive privileges, allowing a local attacker with limited system access to abuse file/command execution paths or writable resources to gain elevated privileges.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS