THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2006-2489
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2006-2489

Nagios vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
5.4%
EPSS pct
92th
Exploited
No known
Integer overflow in CGI scripts in Nagios 1.x before 1.4.1 and 2.x before 2.3.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a content length (Content-Length) HTTP header. NOTE: this is a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-2162.
Affected vendor
Nagios
Affected product
Nagios
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published
2006-05-19

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 5.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2006-2489

  • Confirm whether Nagios Nagios is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2006-2489.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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