5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
7.5 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.046 Low
EPSS
Percentile
92.6%
Nagios is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:nagios:nagios";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.804248");
script_version("2023-07-26T05:05:09+0000");
script_cve_id("CVE-2014-1878");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-07-26 05:05:09 +0000 (Wed, 26 Jul 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2014-03-18 12:05:18 +0530 (Tue, 18 Mar 2014)");
script_name("Nagios cmd.cgi Denial Of Service Vulnerability");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Nagios is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw exists in cmd_submitf() function in cmd.cgi which fails to adequately
bounds-check user-supplied data before copying it into buffer");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code
or cause denial of service condition.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Nagios version before 4.0.3rc1 are affected.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to version Nagios version 4.0.3rc1 or later.");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://secunia.com/advisories/57024");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65605");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.cnnvd.org.cn/vulnerability/show/cv_id/2014020484");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2014 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Web application abuses");
script_dependencies("nagios_detect.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("nagios/installed");
script_require_ports("Services/www", 80);
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if(!http_port = get_app_port(cpe:CPE)){
exit(0);
}
if(!ver = get_app_version(cpe:CPE, port:http_port)){
exit(0);
}
if(version_is_less_equal(version:ver, test_version:"4.0.3"))
{
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:ver, vulnerable_range:"Less than or equal to 4.0.3");
security_message(port:http_port, data:report);
exit(0);
}