CVE-2013-7108
Multiple off-by-one errors in Nagios Core 3.5.1, 4.0.2, and earlier, and Icinga before 1.8.5, 1.9 before 1.9.4, and 1.10 before 1.10.2…
- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 61.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.8% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Multiple off-by-one errors in Nagios Core 3.5.1, 4.0.2, and earlier, and Icinga before 1.8.5, 1.9 before 1.9.4, and 1.10 before 1.10.2 allow remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service (crash) via a long string in the last key value in the variable list to the process_cgivars function in (1) avail.c, (2) cmd.c, (3) config.c, (4) extinfo.c, (5) histogram.c, (6) notifications.c, (7) outages.c, (8) status.c, (9) statusmap.c, (10) summary.c, and (11) trends.c in cgi/, which triggers a heap-based buffer over-read.
Public exploit
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Icinga - cgi/config.c process_cgivars Function Off-by-One Read Remote Denial of Service (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 38882dos, cgipublished 16 Dec 2013Verified
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Timeline
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- 30 days later
· 30 days later
Published
- 11 years later
· 11 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 61.6% · top 0.8% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
13
- MDVSA-2014:004 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2014:0069 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://sourceforge.net/p/nagios/nagioscore/ci/d97e03f32741a7d851826b03ed73ff4c9612a866/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 56316 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2014:0097 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://dev.icinga.org/issues/5251 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20181224 [SECURITY] [DLA 1615-1] nagios3 security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://www.icinga.org/2013/12/17/icinga-security-releases-1-10-2-1-9-4-1-8-5/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20131224 Re: CVE request: denial of service in Nagios (process_cgivars()) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 55976 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 64363 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2014:0016 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2014:0039 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2013-6894 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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