01 Record
CVE-2016-9565
MagpieRSS, as used in the front-end component in Nagios Core before 4.2.2 might allow remote attackers to read or write to arbitrary files by spoofing a crafted response from the Nagios RSS feed
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
MagpieRSS, as used in the front-end component in Nagios Core before 4.2.2 might allow remote attackers to read or write to arbitrary files by spoofing a crafted response from the Nagios RSS feed
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
- 22.68% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 97.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 9.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- 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
- 2016-12-15 22:00Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 02:50Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2016-11-22
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- dd81270d8a65aabeb24df91e0e028ef8c45edf35d16e0532e99c356f8d1601ed
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201710-20https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-20
- www.securityfocus.com20161215 Nagios Core < 4.2.2 Curl Command Injection leading to Remote Code Execution [CVE-2016-9565]http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/539925/100/0/threaded
- www.securitytracker.com1037488http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037488
- www.securityfocus.com94922http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94922
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2017:0258http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0258.html
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2017:0212http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0212.html
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2017:0213http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0213.html
- packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/140169/Nagios-Core-Curl-Command-Injection-Code-Execution.html
- seclists.org20161215 Nagios Core < 4.2.2 Curl Command Injection leading to Remote Code Execution [CVE-2016-9565]http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Dec/57
- www.exploit-db.com40920https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40920/
- www.nagios.orghttps://www.nagios.org/projects/nagios-core/history/4x/
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201702-26https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-26
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2017:0259http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0259.html
- legalhackers.comhttps://legalhackers.com/advisories/Nagios-Exploit-Command-Injection-CVE-2016-9565-2008-4796.html
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2017:0214http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0214.html
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2017:0211http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0211.html