Vulnerability Report

CVE-2009-2288

RCE

Title: Nagios RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2009-2288

CWE Category CWE-78

Published Date Jul 01, 2009

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

83.45%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2009-2288: statuswml.cgi in Nagios before 3.1.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the (1) ping or (2) Traceroute parameters.

Impacted Vendors

nagios 1

Reference Links

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=126996888626964&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/35543 http://secunia.com/advisories/35688 http://secunia.com/advisories/35692 http://secunia.com/advisories/39227 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-15.xml http://tracker.nagios.org/view.php?id=15 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1825 http://www.nagios.org/development/history/core-3x/ http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022503 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-795-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0750 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=126996888626964&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/35543 http://secunia.com/advisories/35688 http://secunia.com/advisories/35692 http://secunia.com/advisories/39227 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-15.xml http://tracker.nagios.org/view.php?id=15 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1825 http://www.nagios.org/development/history/core-3x/ http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022503 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-795-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0750

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2009-2288 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/33051

View Code

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16908

View Code

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9861

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

July 01, 2009 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:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.