DEBIAN-CVE-2020-6581

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-6581
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-6581.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-6581
Upstream
Published
2020-03-16T18:15:12Z
Modified
2025-09-25T22:40:35Z
Severity
  • 7.3 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / nagios-nrpe

Package

Name
nagios-nrpe
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/nagios-nrpe?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.0.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / nagios-nrpe

Package

Name
nagios-nrpe
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/nagios-nrpe?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.0.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / nagios-nrpe

Package

Name
nagios-nrpe
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/nagios-nrpe?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.0.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / nagios-nrpe

Package

Name
nagios-nrpe
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/nagios-nrpe?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.0.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}