CVE-2019-9166 is a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Nagios XI versions prior to 5.5.11. A local attacker with write access to specific configuration files can leverage this flaw to elevate their privileges to root. While the CVSS score is 7.8 (High), indicating significant impact including full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 5.5.11CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:nagios:nagios_xi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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