Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-5796 - Improper Preservation of Permissions vulnerability in Nagios XI 5.7.4

047910
CVSS 7.8 - HIGH
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
LOW
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
local
low complexity
nagios
CWE-281

Summary

Improper preservation of permissions in Nagios XI 5.7.4 allows a local, low-privileged, authenticated user to weaken the permissions of files, resulting in low-privileged users being able to write to and execute arbitrary PHP code with root privileges.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Nagios
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)