CVE-2009-2288

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 83.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-07-01 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-78

Description

statuswml.cgi in Nagios before 3.1.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the (1) ping or (2) Traceroute parameters.

Affected products

Nagios Enterprises nagios: through 3.1.0; 1.0, 1.0b1, 1.0b2, 1.0b4, 1.1, 1.4.1 (+25)

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=126996888626964&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/35543
http://secunia.com/advisories/35688
http://secunia.com/advisories/35692
http://secunia.com/advisories/39227
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-15.xml
http://tracker.nagios.org/view.php?id=15
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1825
http://www.nagios.org/development/history/core-3x/
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022503
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-795-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0750

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