CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
94.4%
Creation of a Temporary Directory with Insecure Permissions in Nagios XI 5.7.5 and earlier allows for Privilege Escalation via creation of symlinks, which are mishandled in getprofile.sh.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
##
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
##
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(150057);
script_version("1.5");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/06/05");
script_cve_id("CVE-2020-28910");
script_xref(name:"IAVB", value:"2024-B-0017-S");
script_name(english:"Nagios XI < 5.8 Privilege Escalatioon");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote host has a web application affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"Creation of a Temporary Directory with Insecure Permissions in Nagios XI 5.7.5 and earlier allows for Privilege Escalation via creation of symlinks, which are mishandled in getprofile.sh.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.nagios.com/downloads/nagios-xi/change-log/");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.nagios.com/products/security/");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade to Nagios XI 5.8.0 or above.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"agent", value:"unix");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2020-28910");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2020/06/08");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/06/08");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2021/05/28");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"combined");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:nagios:nagios_xi");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"thorough_tests", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"enable_cgi_scanning", value:"true");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"CGI abuses");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2021-2024 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_dependencies("nagios_enterprise_detect.nasl", "nagiosxi_nix_installed.nbin");
script_require_ports("installed_sw/nagios_xi", "installed_sw/Nagios XI");
exit(0);
}
include('vcf_extras.inc');
var app_info = vcf::nagiosxi::get_app_info();
var constraints = [
{'max_version': '5.7.5', 'fixed_version': '5.8.0'}
];
vcf::nagiosxi::check_version_and_report(app_info:app_info, constraints:constraints, severity:SECURITY_HOLE, default_fix:'5.8.0');
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
94.4%