Nagios XI 5.5.6 allows local authenticated attackers to escalate privileges to root via Autodiscover_new.php.

Nagios XI 5.5.6 allows remote authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted HTTP request.

Snoopy 1.0 in Nagios XI 5.5.6 allows remote unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted HTTP request.

nagios: NULL pointer dereference in qh_core in base/query-handler.c

qh_core in Nagios Core 4.4.1 and earlier is prone to a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability, which allows attackers to cause a local denial-of-service condition by sending a crafted payload to the listening UNIX socket.

nagios: NULL pointer dereference in qh_echo in base/query-handler.c

qh_echo in Nagios Core 4.4.1 and earlier is prone to a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability, which allows attackers to cause a local denial-of-service condition by sending a crafted payload to the listening UNIX socket.

nagios: NULL pointer dereference in qh_help in base/query-handler.c

qh_help in Nagios Core version 4.4.1 and earlier is prone to a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability, which allows attacker to cause a local denial-of-service condition by sending a crafted payload to the listening UNIX socket.

A SQL injection issue was discovered in Nagios XI before 5.4.13 via the admin/menuaccess.php chbKey1 parameter.

A SQL injection issue was discovered in Nagios XI before 5.4.13 via the admin/logbook.php txtSearch parameter.

A SQL injection issue was discovered in Nagios XI before 5.4.13 via the admin/info.php key1 parameter.

A SQL injection issue was discovered in Nagios XI before 5.4.13 via the admin/commandline.php cname parameter.

An issue was discovered in Nagios XI 5.4.13. There is XSS exploitable via CSRF in (1) the Schedule New Report screen via the hour, minute, or ampm parameter, related to components/scheduledreporting; (2) includes/components/xicore/downtime.php, related to the update_pages function; (3) the ajaxhelper.php opts or background parameter; (4) the i[] array parameter to ajax_handler.php; or (5) the deploynotification.php title parameter.

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.

nagios: Unsafe ownership change leading to privilege escalation

A privilege escalation vulnerability was found in nagios 4.2.x that occurs in daemon-init.in when creating necessary files and insecurely changing the ownership afterwards. It's possible for the local attacker to create symbolic links before the files are to be created and possibly escalating the privileges with the ownership change.