CVE-2020-5796

7.8 highEPSS 2.0%

High (7.8) in nagios nagios xi. EPSS 2.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Improper preservation of permissions in Nagios XI 5.7.4 allows a local, low-privileged, authenticated user to weaken the permissions of files, resulting in low-privileged users being able to write to and execute arbitrary PHP code with root privileges.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 2.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 80% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-281
Published: 2020-11-13
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

nagios:nagios_xi

References

https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2020-61
https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2020-61

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