THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2018-10553
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2018-10553

Nagios Xi vulnerability

CVSS
6.5
EPSS
39.5%
EPSS pct
98th
Exploited
No known
An issue was discovered in Nagios XI 5.4.13. A registered user is able to use directory traversal to read local files, as demonstrated by URIs beginning with index.php?xiwindow=./ and config/?xiwindow=../ substrings.
Affected vendor
Nagios
Affected product
Nagios Xi
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2018-04-30

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring low privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality.

Its EPSS score of 39.5% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2018-10553

  • Confirm whether Nagios Nagios Xi is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-10553.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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