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CVE-2014-4703

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CVE-2014-4703 is a local information disclosure vulnerability affecting Nagios Plugins version 2.0.2. It allows a local attacker to read sensitive information by exploiting a symlink attack on the configuration file specified via the extra-opts flag. This vulnerability, an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-4701, has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating low attack complexity and a partial impact on confidentiality. While there is an ExploitDB entry (EDB-33904) detailing a race condition exploit, there is no evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit or Nuclei modules, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:nagios:nagios:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.08%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
61.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-33904 · Jun 28, 2014
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0108 is in the 92nd 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-2014-4703Important

nagios-plugins: check_dhcp Arbitrary Option File Read

May 16, 2014

References

nagios-plugins.org / nagios-plugins-2-0-3-released
PatchVendor Advisory
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2014/Jun/141
Exploit
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/06/30/6
securityfocus.com / bid/76810