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CVE-2014-4702

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-4702 is a local information disclosure vulnerability affecting Nagios Plugins before version 2.0.2, specifically within the check_icmp plugin. An attacker can leverage the 'extra-opts' flag to read sensitive data from INI configuration files. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and a potential impact of confidentiality loss. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion 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
0.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
33.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0041 is in the 60th 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-2014-4702Important

nagios-plugins: check_icmp Arbitrary Option File Read

May 16, 2014

References

nagios-plugins.org / nagios-plugins-2-0-2-released
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/58751
secunia.com / advisories/61319
suse.com / support/update/announcement/2014/suse-su-20141352-1.html
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/06/30/6
securityfocus.com / bid/68293