CVE-2021-37347

7.8 highEPSS 0.8%

High (7.8) in nagios nagios xi. EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Nagios XI before version 5.8.5 is vulnerable to local privilege escalation because getprofile.sh does not validate the directory name it receives as an argument.

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: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 55% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-22
Published: 2021-08-13
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

nagios:nagios_xi

References

https://www.nagios.com/downloads/nagios-xi/change-log/
https://www.nagios.com/downloads/nagios-xi/change-log/

Check your stack JSON