CVE-2020-6581
7.3
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.23%
Description
Nagios NRPE 3.2.1 has Insufficient Filtering because, for example, nasty_metachars interprets \n as the character \ and the character n (not as the \n newline sequence). This can cause command injection.
How to fix CVE-2020-6581
To remediate CVE-2020-6581, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/nrpe—upgrade to 4.0.0-r0 or later
- Debian/nagios-nrpe—upgrade to 4.0.0-1 or later
Is CVE-2020-6581 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 4.0.0-r0
- from 0, < 4.0.0-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |