VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-5796

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability1.95%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2020-11-13
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-281

Primary references