CVE-2013-7205
Off-by-one error in the process_cgivars function in contrib/daemonchk.c in Nagios Core 3.5.1, 4.0.2, and earlier allows remote…
- 6.4MediumCVSS base score
- 4.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 8.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Off-by-one error in the process_cgivars function in contrib/daemonchk.c in Nagios Core 3.5.1, 4.0.2, and earlier allows 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, which triggers a heap-based buffer over-read.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 22 days later
· 22 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 | Medium6.4 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.6% · top 8.3% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.4.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- 64489 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- MDVSA-2014:004 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- http://sourceforge.net/p/nagios/nagioscore/ci/d97e03f32741a7d851826b03ed73ff4c9612a866/ (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
- [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
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-2013-6988 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2013-7205)Record last updated .