Nagios Web Interface < 3.0.5 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

CPE = "cpe:/a:nagios:nagios";

if (description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.100189");
  script_version("2025-09-11T05:38:37+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-09-11 05:38:37 +0000 (Thu, 11 Sep 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2009-05-06 14:55:27 +0200 (Wed, 06 May 2009)");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2008-5027");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.5");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_name("Nagios Web Interface < 3.0.5 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family("Web application abuses");
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AG");
  script_dependencies("gb_nagios_http_detect.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("nagios/detected");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32156");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Nagios is prone to an unspecified privilege-escalation scripting
  vulnerability.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"An attacker with low-level privileges may exploit this issue to
  bypass authorization and cause arbitrary commands to run within the context of the Nagios server.
  This may aid in further attacks.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Nagios prior to version 3.0.5.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 3.0.5 or later.");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  exit(0);
}

include("version_func.inc");
include("host_details.inc");

if(!port = get_app_port(cpe:CPE))
  exit(0);

if(!vers = get_app_version(cpe:CPE, port:port))
  exit(0);

if(version_is_less(version:vers, test_version:"3.0.5")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:vers, fixed_version:"3.0.5");
  security_message(port:port, data:report);
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);