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CVE-2006-2162

MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5
5CVSS MEDIUM

Summary

Buffer overflow in CGI scripts in Nagios 1.x before 1.4 and 2.x before 2.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a negative content length (Content-Length) HTTP header.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impact—
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)5%

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.