High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Mar 28, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2019-9166
CVE-2019-9166
Description
Privilege escalation in Nagios XI before 5.5.11 allows local attackers to elevate privileges to root via write access to config.inc.php and import_xiconfig.php.
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References
3- packetstormsecurity.com/files/152496/Nagios-XI-5.5.10-XSS-Remote-Code-Execution.htmlnvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.nagios.com/downloads/nagios-xi/change-log/nvdProductRelease NotesVendor Advisory
- www.nagios.com/products/security/nvdVendor Advisory
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