{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2019-15949 in the wild since at least 3 Nov 2021.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2019-15949 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available. US federal agencies must fix it by 3 May 2022.","what":"CVE-2019-15949 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Nagios Nagios Xi, published on 5 Sep 2019. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2019-15949 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2019-15949 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Nagios Nagios Xi, published on 5 Sep 2019. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2019-15949 in the wild since at least 3 Nov 2021.\n\nAffected product: Nagios Nagios Xi. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-15949/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-15949/index.md)","id":"CVE-2019-15949","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-15949/index.md","name":"CVE-2019-15949","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-8qv6-943v-r8gm"],"analysis":{"component_type":"web_application","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution","privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Nagios XI monitoring","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Authenticated users or local nagios users can modify plugin executables to achieve remote code execution as root via a sudo misconfiguration.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"command_injection"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"nagios_xi","vendor":"nagios"}],"cvss":{"score":8.8,"severity":"high","source":"cisa-adp","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-78","name":"Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command"}],"description":"Nagios XI before 5.6.6 allows remote command execution as root. The exploit requires access to the server as the nagios user, or access as the admin user via the web interface. The getprofile.sh script, invoked by downloading a system profile (profile.php?cmd=download), is executed as root via a passwordless sudo entry; the script executes check_plugin, which is owned by the nagios user. A user logged into Nagios XI with permissions to modify plugins, or the nagios user on the server, can modify the check_plugin executable and insert malicious commands to execute as root.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":2,"first_seen":"2019-07-29","github_poc":1,"max_poc_stars":0,"metasploit":2,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2019-07-29","kind":"metasploit","ref":"exploit/linux/http/nagios_xi_plugins_check_plugin_authenticated_rce","stars":null,"title":"Nagios XI Prior to 5.6.6 getprofile.sh Authenticated Remote Command Execution"},{"date":"2020-03-10","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"48191","stars":null,"title":"Nagios XI - Authenticated Remote Command Execution (Metasploit)"},{"date":"2025-04-08","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"52138","stars":null,"title":"Nagios Xi 5.6.6 - Authenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE)"},{"date":"2026-03-17T21:24:07Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/plur1bu5/Nagios-CVE-2019-15949-RCE","stars":0,"title":"a PoC for the Nagios CVE-2019-15949 rce in python"},{"date":null,"kind":"metasploit","ref":"auxiliary/scanner/http/nagios_xi_scanner","stars":null,"title":"Nagios XI Scanner"}],"tier":"exploited"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Nagios XI Remote Code Execution","id":"CVE-2019-15949","indexable":true,"kev":{"dateAdded":"2021-11-03","dueDate":"2022-05-03","knownRansomwareCampaignUse":"Unknown","product":"Nagios XI","requiredAction":"Apply updates per vendor instructions.","vendorProject":"Nagios","vulnerabilityName":"Nagios XI Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"},"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"nagios:nagios_xi","products":["nagios:nagios_xi"],"type":"command_injection","year":"2019"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"Cross-site scripting in n/a","id":"CVE-2019-15950"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2019-15948"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2019-09-05","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Nagios XI OS Command Injection","id":"CVE-2021-25296","kev_date_added":"2022-01-18","published":"2021-02-15"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Nagios XI OS Command Injection","id":"CVE-2021-25297","kev_date_added":"2022-01-18","published":"2021-02-15"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Nagios XI OS Command Injection","id":"CVE-2021-25298","kev_date_added":"2022-01-18","published":"2021-02-15"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"SQL injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2024-24401","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-02-26"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-2024-24402","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-02-26"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"SQL injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2023-48084","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-12-14"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"open","licence":"CC0 1.0","name":"CISA KEV"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"BSD-3-Clause","name":"Metasploit"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"GPL-2.0-or-later","name":"Exploit-DB"},{"class":"open","licence":"CC0","name":"PoC-in-GitHub"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"active","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2025-10-21","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Authenticated users or local nagios users can modify plugin executables to achieve remote code execution as root via a sudo misconfiguration.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-15949/"}