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CVE-2020-5792

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 58.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-10-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-88

Description

Improper neutralization of argument delimiters in a command in Nagios XI 5.7.3 allows a remote, authenticated admin user to write to arbitrary files and ultimately execute code with the privileges of the apache user.

Affected products

• Nagios XI: 5.7.3

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162284/Nagios-XI-5.7.3-Remote-Code-Execution.html
• https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2020-58
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162284/Nagios-XI-5.7.3-Remote-Code-Execution.html
• https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2020-58

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