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CVE-2022-29271
In Nagios XI through 5.8.5, a read-only Nagios user (due to an incorrect permission check) is able to schedule downtime for any…
Medium6.5EPSS 2.0%
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- mitre
Description
In Nagios XI through 5.8.5, a read-only Nagios user (due to an incorrect permission check) is able to schedule downtime for any host/services. This allows an attacker to permanently disable all monitoring checks.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.0% · top 19% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (4)
- https://www.nagios.com/downloads/nagios-xi/change-log/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/CHANGES-5.TXT (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/4LPH4-NL/CVEs (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/sT0wn-nl/CVEs/blob/master/README.md#nagios-xi (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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