Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-1878

Title: Nagios Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-1878.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Feb 28, 2014

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.13%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-1878: Stack-based buffer overflow in the cmd_submitf function in cgi/cmd.c in Nagios Core, possibly 4.0.3rc1 and earlier, and Icinga before 1.8.6, 1.9 before 1.9.5, and 1.10 before 1.10.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a long message to cmd.cgi.

Impacted Vendors

nagios 1

icinga 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-04/msg00033.html http://secunia.com/advisories/57024 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65605 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1066578 https://dev.icinga.org/issues/5434 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00014.html https://www.icinga.org/2014/02/11/bugfix-releases-1-10-3-1-9-5-1-8-6 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-04/msg00033.html http://secunia.com/advisories/57024 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65605 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1066578 https://dev.icinga.org/issues/5434 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00014.html https://www.icinga.org/2014/02/11/bugfix-releases-1-10-3-1-9-5-1-8-6

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-1878 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 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

February 28, 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:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.