THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2019-12279
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2019-12279

Nagios Xi vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
4.2%
EPSS pct
90th
Exploited
No known
Nagios XI 5.6.1 allows SQL injection via the username parameter to login.php?forgotpass (aka the reset password form). NOTE: The vendor disputes this issues as not being a vulnerability because the issue does not seem to be a legitimate SQL Injection. The POC does not show any valid injection that can be done with the variable provided, and while the username value being passed does get used in a SQL query, it is passed through SQL escaping functions when creating the call. The vendor tried re-creating the issue with no luck
Affected vendor
Nagios
Affected product
Nagios Xi
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2019-05-22

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 4.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2019-12279

  • Confirm whether Nagios Nagios Xi is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2019-12279.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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