CVE-2013-1362

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 65.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-07-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in nrpc.c in Nagios Remote Plug-In Executor (NRPE) before 2.14 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands via "$()" shell metacharacters, which are processed by bash.

Affected products

Nagios Remote Plug In Executor: through 2.13; 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8 (+22)
Opensuse: 11.4, 12.1, 12.2

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00006.html
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2013/Feb/119
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/24955
http://www.occamsec.com/vulnerabilities.html#nagios_metacharacter_vulnerability
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807241
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00006.html
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2013/Feb/119
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/24955
http://www.occamsec.com/vulnerabilities.html#nagios_metacharacter_vulnerability
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807241

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