CVE-2018-8736

8.8 highEPSS 46%

A privilege escalation vulnerability in Nagios XI 5.2.x through 5.4.x before 5.4.13 allows an attacker to leverage an RCE vulnerability escalating to root.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

8.8 high

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 46% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 98% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
Published: 2018-04-18
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

nagios:nagios_xi

References

https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/CHANGES-5.TXT
https://blog.redactedsec.net/exploits/2018/04/26/nagios.html
https://gist.github.com/caleBot/f0a93b5a98574393e0139104eacc2d0f
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44560/
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44969/

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