CVE-2018-16146 is a critical command injection vulnerability affecting Opsview Monitor 5.4.x before 5.4.2. An authenticated administrator can exploit a lack of input sanitization in the notification testing functionality to execute arbitrary commands with nagios user privileges. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.2, indicating a network-based attack with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring high privileges but no user interaction. While not currently in the KEV catalog and lacking public exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, suggesting awareness within the security community.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 5.4.0, < 5.4.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:opsview:opsview:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.3 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.