CVE-2011-2179

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 26.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-06-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in config.c in config.cgi in (1) Nagios 3.2.3 and (2) Icinga before 1.4.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the expand parameter, as demonstrated by an (a) command action or a (b) hosts action.

Affected products

icinga2: through 1.4.0; 0.8.0, 0.8.1, 0.8.2, 0.8.3, 0.8.4, 1.0 (+8)
Nagios Enterprises nagios: 3.2.3

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2011-06/0017.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2011-06/0018.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/44974
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8274
http://tracker.nagios.org/view.php?id=224
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/01/10
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/02/6
http://www.rul3z.de/advisories/SSCHADV2011-005.txt
http://www.rul3z.de/advisories/SSCHADV2011-006.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48087
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1151-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709871

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