CVE-2018-8736

Public Exploit

Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability in Nagios XI 5.2.x through 5.4.x before 5.4.13 allows an attacker to leverage an RCE vulnerability escalating to root.

8.8

CVSS

Severity: High

CVSS 3.0 •

CVSS 2.0 •

EPSS 67.98% Top 5%

Vendor Advisory nagios.com Vendor Advisory nagios.com

Affected: n/a n/a

References

Link	Tags
https://gist.github.com/caleBot/f0a93b5a98574393e0139104eacc2d0f	third party advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44560/	third party advisory vdb entry exploit
https://www.nagios.com/downloads/nagios-xi/change-log/	release notes vendor advisory
https://blog.redactedsec.net/exploits/2018/04/26/nagios.html	release notes exploit third party advisory technical description
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/CHANGES-5.TXT	release notes vendor advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44969/	third party advisory vdb entry exploit

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2018-8736?: CVE-2018-8736 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2018-8736?: To fix CVE-2018-8736, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2018-8736 being actively exploited in the wild?: It is possible that CVE-2018-8736 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~68% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.

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