Vulnerability Report

CVE-2020-6581

RCE

Title: Nagios Remote Plug In Executor RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2020-6581.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Mar 16, 2020
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.3 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
1.61%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2020-6581: Nagios NRPE 3.2.1 has Insufficient Filtering because, for example, nasty_metachars interprets \n as the character \ and the character n (not as the \n newline sequence). This can cause command injection.

Impacted Vendors

N
nagios 1

Reference Links

https://herolab.usd.de/security-advisories/ https://herolab.usd.de/security-advisories/usd-2020-0002/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2DNGKXVDB43E3KQRA6W5QZT3Z46XZLQM/ https://herolab.usd.de/security-advisories/ https://herolab.usd.de/security-advisories/usd-2020-0002/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2DNGKXVDB43E3KQRA6W5QZT3Z46XZLQM/
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
REQUIRED
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity LOW
3.7
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2020-6581 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector LOCAL
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction REQUIRED
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.