CVE-2014-2913
Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in nrpe.c in Nagios Remote Plugin Executor (NRPE) 2.15 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a newline character in the -a option to
02 Description
Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in nrpe.c in Nagios Remote Plugin Executor (NRPE) 2.15 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a newline character in the -a option to
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 15.31% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 96.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2014-05-07 10:00Z12 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 10:28Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2014-04-18
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 4239e400d67e94af7a2785eac2dc9ca1e899ef2fa16e1055af97c35f29fa973e
05 Affected products
06 References
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2014:0603http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00014.html
- www.securityfocus.com66969http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66969
- seclists.org[oss-security] 20140422 Re: CVE Request: Nagios Remote Plugin Executor <= 2.15 Remote Command Executionhttp://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/155
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2015-15398http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166528.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2014:0594http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00005.html
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SU-2014:0682http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-05/msg00011.html
- seclists.org[oss-security] 20140422 Re: CVE Request: Nagios Remote Plugin Executor <= 2.15 Remote Command Executionhttp://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/154
- seclists.org20140417 NRPE - Nagios Remote Plugin Executor <= 2.15 Remote Command Executionhttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Apr/240
- seclists.org20140418 Re: NRPE - Nagios Remote Plugin Executor <= 2.15 Remote Command Executionhttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Apr/242
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- nagios-nrpe Fixed in 2.15-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- nagios-nrpe Fixed in 2.15-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- nagios-nrpe Fixed in 2.15-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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