CVE-2020-5796 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2020-61

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8