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CVE-2014-4701

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-4701 describes a local information disclosure vulnerability in the check_dhcp plugin of Nagios Plugins prior to version 2.0.2. An attacker can leverage the "extra-opts" flag to read sensitive data from INI configuration files. With a CVSS score of 2.1, this vulnerability is considered low severity, requiring local access and resulting in confidentiality impact without affecting integrity or availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:nagios:nagios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.53%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
41.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0053 is in the 78th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-4701Important

nagios-plugins: check_dhcp Arbitrary Option File Read

May 16, 2014

References

legalhackers.com / advisories/nagios-check_dhcp.txt
Exploit
nagios-plugins.org / nagios-plugins-2-0-2-released
PatchVendor Advisory
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2014/May/74
Exploit
secunia.com / advisories/58751
secunia.com / advisories/61319
suse.com / support/update/announcement/2014/suse-su-20141352-1.html
exploit-db.com / exploits/33387
Exploit
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/06/30/6
securityfocus.com / bid/67433