CVE-2019-12279

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2019-05-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-89

Description

Nagios XI 5.6.1 allows SQL injection via the username parameter to login.php?forgotpass (aka the reset password form). NOTE: The vendor disputes this issues as not being a vulnerability because the issue does not seem to be a legitimate SQL Injection. The POC does not show any valid injection that can be done with the variable provided, and while the username value being passed does get used in a SQL query, it is passed through SQL escaping functions when creating the call. The vendor tried re-creating the issue with no luck

Affected products

Nagios XI: 5.6.1

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153040/Nagios-XI-5.6.1-SQL-Injection.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108446
https://github.com/JameelNabbo/exploits/blob/master/nagiosxi%20username%20sql%20injection.txt
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153040/Nagios-XI-5.6.1-SQL-Injection.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108446
https://github.com/JameelNabbo/exploits/blob/master/nagiosxi%20username%20sql%20injection.txt

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