CVE-2022-38249

FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-38249 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting Nagios XI v5.8.6, specifically within the MTR component version 1.0.4. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, requiring user interaction, and could lead to limited disclosure of information and impact on integrity. While the FAUCET Risk Score is high, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		5.8.6CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:nagios:nagios_xi:5.8.6:::::::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.1MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

Exploitability Score

2.8

Impact Score

2.7

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

1.78%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

76.0%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-28

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0178 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 26,236 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Storage 3Fixed in: nagios

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2022-38249Moderate

nagios: cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability via the MTR component

Sep 8, 2022

References

nagios.com / downloads/nagios-xi/change-log

Vendor Advisory