Local privilege escalation via insecure profile handling
Published Oct 30, 2025 · Updated Oct 30, 2025
Privilege escalation in Nagios XI before 5.7.3 allows local users to execute arbitrary commands or modify privileged files. The scripts/getprofile.sh helper performs profile retrieval and initialization with insufficient validation and insecure file and command handling of attacker-controlled inputs. Low-level local access is required, and deployments that execute the helper with elevated privileges expose root-equivalent command execution or privileged-file modification.
Summary
What happened
Privilege escalation in Nagios XI before 5.7.3 allows local users to execute arbitrary commands or modify privileged files. The scripts/getprofile.sh helper performs profile retrieval and initialization with insufficient validation and insecure file and command handling of attacker-controlled inputs. Low-level local access is required, and deployments that execute the helper with elevated privileges expose root-equivalent command execution or privileged-file modification.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2020-36868
- Published
- Oct 30, 2025
- Updated
- Oct 30, 2025
- Vendor
- Nagios Enterprises, LLC
- Product
- Nagios XI
- Classifications
- CWE-250, CWE-73, T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Oct 30, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Oct 30, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <5.7.3
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