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CVE-2014-5009

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-5009 is a critical command injection vulnerability in Snoopy, affecting various Nagios and OpenStack integrations. This flaw, an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-5008, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands with a CVSS score of 9.8. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions. Its high FAUCET Risk Score of 93/100 indicates a substantial threat despite the lack of confirmed in-the-wild exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:snoopy:snoopy:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 4.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:nagios:nagios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.71%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0471 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 36,833 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (10)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6Fixed in: nagios-0:3.5.1-9.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 7Fixed in: nagios-0:3.5.1-9.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7Fixed in: nagios-0:3.5.1-9.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7Fixed in: nagios-0:3.5.1-9.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 3Fixed in: nagios
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4Fixed in: nagios
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 2.1Fixed in: nagios
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 3.0Fixed in: nagios

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-5009Important

snoopy: incomplete fixes for command execution flaws

Jul 3, 2014

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0211.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0212.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0213.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0214.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatch
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/94738
github.com / cogdog/feed2js/pull/12
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
snoopy.cvs.sourceforge.net / viewvc/snoopy/Snoopy/Snoopy.class.php
PatchThird Party Advisory
www-01.ibm.com / support/docview.wss
Third Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/07/09/11
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/07/16/10
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/07/18/2
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/68783
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry