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CVE-2022-29271

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-06-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-863

Description

In Nagios XI through 5.8.5, a read-only Nagios user (due to an incorrect permission check) is able to schedule downtime for any host/services. This allows an attacker to permanently disable all monitoring checks.

Affected products

• Nagios XI: through 5.8.5

References

• https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/CHANGES-5.TXT
• https://github.com/4LPH4-NL/CVEs
• https://github.com/sT0wn-nl/CVEs/blob/master/README.md#nagios-xi
• https://www.nagios.com/downloads/nagios-xi/change-log/
• https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/CHANGES-5.TXT
• https://github.com/4LPH4-NL/CVEs
• https://github.com/sT0wn-nl/CVEs/blob/master/README.md#nagios-xi
• https://www.nagios.com/downloads/nagios-xi/change-log/

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