CVE-2020-6581

HighCVSS 7.3/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.3/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://herolab.usd.de/security-advisories/Third Party Advisory
https://herolab.usd.de/security-advisories/usd-2020-0002/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2DNGKXVDB43E3KQRA6W5QZT3Z46XZLQM/
https://herolab.usd.de/security-advisories/Third Party Advisory
https://herolab.usd.de/security-advisories/usd-2020-0002/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2DNGKXVDB43E3KQRA6W5QZT3Z46XZLQM/

Timeline

Published: Mar 16, 2020
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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