CVE-2019-15949: Nagios XI Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)

Description

Nagios XI contains a remote code execution vulnerability in which a user can modify the check_plugin executable and insert malicious commands to execute as root.

Required action (CISA)

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Notes

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15949

Weakness behind it

CISA records this vulnerability as an instance of CWE-78. From there the chain continues into CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques, all inside this corpus.

References

• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15949
• KEV catalog: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog