Vulnerability Report

CVE-2011-2179

Title: Nagios Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2011-2179

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date Jun 14, 2011

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

26.04%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2011-2179: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in config.c in config.cgi in (1) Nagios 3.2.3 and (2) Icinga before 1.4.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the expand parameter, as demonstrated by an (a) command action or a (b) hosts action.

Impacted Vendors

nagios 1

icinga 1

Reference Links

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2011-06/0017.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2011-06/0018.html http://secunia.com/advisories/44974 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8274 http://tracker.nagios.org/view.php?id=224 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/01/10 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/02/6 http://www.rul3z.de/advisories/SSCHADV2011-005.txt http://www.rul3z.de/advisories/SSCHADV2011-006.txt http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48087 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1151-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709871 https://dev.icinga.org/issues/1605 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67797 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2011-06/0017.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2011-06/0018.html http://secunia.com/advisories/44974 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8274 http://tracker.nagios.org/view.php?id=224 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/01/10 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/02/6 http://www.rul3z.de/advisories/SSCHADV2011-005.txt http://www.rul3z.de/advisories/SSCHADV2011-006.txt http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48087 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1151-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709871 https://dev.icinga.org/issues/1605 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67797

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2011-2179 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/35818

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

June 14, 2011 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:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.