2025-10-30 21:32CVE-2013-10073VulnCheck
PUBLISHED5.2CWE-78

Nagios XI < 2012R1.6 Auto-Discovery Shell Command Injection

Nagios XI versions prior to 2012R1.6 contain a shell command injection vulnerability in the Auto-Discovery tool. User-controlled input is passed to a shell without adequate sanitation or argument quoting, allowing an authenticated user with access to discovery functionality to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the application service.

Problem type

Affected products

Nagios

XI

< 2012R1.6 - AFFECTED

References

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Mitre source

https://cveawg.mitre.org/api/cve/CVE-2013-10073