Vulnerability Report

CVE-2007-5198

Title: Nagios Plugins RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2007-5198

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Oct 04, 2007

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

8.02%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2007-5198: Buffer overflow in the redir function in check_http.c in Nagios Plugins before 1.4.10, when running with the -f (follow) option, allows remote web servers to execute arbitrary code via Location header responses (redirects) with a large number of leading "L" characters.

Impacted Vendors

nagios 1

Reference Links

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194178 http://secunia.com/advisories/27124 http://secunia.com/advisories/27362 http://secunia.com/advisories/27609 http://secunia.com/advisories/27965 http://secunia.com/advisories/28930 http://secunia.com/advisories/29862 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-11.xml http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=740172 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1687867&group_id=29880&atid=397597 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1813346&group_id=29880&atid=397597 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1495 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:067 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_25_sr.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25952 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-532-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3394 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00249.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00282.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00320.html http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194178 http://secunia.com/advisories/27124 http://secunia.com/advisories/27362 http://secunia.com/advisories/27609 http://secunia.com/advisories/27965 http://secunia.com/advisories/28930 http://secunia.com/advisories/29862 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-11.xml http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=740172 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1687867&group_id=29880&atid=397597 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1813346&group_id=29880&atid=397597 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1495 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:067 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_25_sr.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25952 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-532-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3394 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00249.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00282.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00320.html

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2007-5198 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/30646

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

October 04, 2007 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.