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CVE-2020-15903
An issue was found in Nagios XI before 5.7.3. There is a privilege escalation vulnerability in backend scripts that ran as root where some…
Critical9.8EPSS 5.5%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
An issue was found in Nagios XI before 5.7.3. There is a privilege escalation vulnerability in backend scripts that ran as root where some included files were editable by nagios user. This issue was fixed in version 5.7.3.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 49 days later
· 49 days later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.5% · top 7.1% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (1)
- https://www.nagios.com/downloads/nagios-xi/change-log/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
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- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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