CVE-2026-48548

6.9 mediumEPSS 0.2%

Medium (6.9). EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Nagios Core before 4.5.12 contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability in cmd.cgi where the CSRF protection mechanism passes validation when the NagFormId cookie is absent. Attackers can craft a malicious cross-site POST request to execute arbitrary Nagios commands as a currently authenticated user without their knowledge or consent.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

6.9 medium

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS 3.1

6.5 medium

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

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 11% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-352
Published: 2026-08-26
Modified: 2026-09-24
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/blob/master/Changelog
https://www.nagios.com/security-disclosures/nagios-core/
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/nagios-core-csrf-via-cmd-cgi

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