CVE-2014-2913

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 15.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-05-07 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in nrpe.c in Nagios Remote Plugin Executor (NRPE) 2.15 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a newline character in the -a option to libexec/check_nrpe. NOTE: this issue is disputed by multiple parties. It has been reported that the vendor allows newlines as "expected behavior." Also, this issue can only occur when the administrator enables the "dont_blame_nrpe" option in nrpe.conf despite the "HIGH security risk" warning within the comments

Affected products

Nagios Remote Plugin Executor: through 2.15
Opensuse: 11.4, 12.3, 13.1

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166528.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-05/msg00011.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00014.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Apr/240
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Apr/242
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/154
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/155
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66969
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166528.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-05/msg00011.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00005.html

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