01 Record
CVE-2018-8736
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.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 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.
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
- 45.62% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 98.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 8.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
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
- 2018-04-18 00:00Z8 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 07:02Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2018-03-15
- 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
- a19b6ee02a43b1aff0cc8ac2fdfdb3870c39263b38ae2290d0593d6bbbe133e1
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- gist.github.comhttps://gist.github.com/caleBot/f0a93b5a98574393e0139104eacc2d0f
- www.exploit-db.com44560https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44560/
- www.nagios.comhttps://www.nagios.com/downloads/nagios-xi/change-log/
- blog.redactedsec.nethttps://blog.redactedsec.net/exploits/2018/04/26/nagios.html
- assets.nagios.comhttps://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/CHANGES-5.TXT
- www.exploit-db.com44969https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44969/