CVE-2014-2913

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

07/05/2014

Last modified:

12/04/2025

Description

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in nrpe.c in Nagios Remote Plugin Executor (NRPE) 2.15 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a newline character in the -a option to libexec/check_nrpe. NOTE: this issue is disputed by multiple parties. It has been reported that the vendor allows newlines as "expected behavior." Also, this issue can only occur when the administrator enables the "dont_blame_nrpe" option in nrpe.conf despite the "HIGH security risk" warning within the comments

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

7.50

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:nagios:remote_plugin_executor::::::::		2.15 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:11.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2014-2913

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools