Vulnerability Report

CVE-2013-7205

Title: Nagios Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2013-7205.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Jan 15, 2014

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.4 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

4.11%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2013-7205: Off-by-one error in the process_cgivars function in contrib/daemonchk.c in Nagios Core 3.5.1, 4.0.2, and earlier allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service (crash) via a long string in the last key value in the variable list, which triggers a heap-based buffer over-read.

Impacted Vendors

nagios 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/55976 http://sourceforge.net/p/nagios/nagioscore/ci/d97e03f32741a7d851826b03ed73ff4c9612a866/ http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:004 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/12/24/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64489 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00014.html http://secunia.com/advisories/55976 http://sourceforge.net/p/nagios/nagioscore/ci/d97e03f32741a7d851826b03ed73ff4c9612a866/ http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:004 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/12/24/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64489 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00014.html

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.4

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2013-7205 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 17, 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.

January 15, 2014 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:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.