CVE-2018-8736 is a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Nagios XI versions 5.2.x through 5.4.12. This flaw allows an authenticated attacker to chain with an existing Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability to escalate privileges to root. With a CVSS score of 8.8, the vulnerability has a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and can be exploited with low complexity over the network. While not listed on the KEV catalog, multiple public exploit modules, including Metasploit and ExploitDB entries, demonstrate its exploitability. Despite the availability of exploit code, there is no significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 5.2.0, < 5.4.13CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:nagios:nagios_xi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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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.