High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Nov 13, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2020-5796
CVE-2020-5796
Description
Improper preservation of permissions in Nagios XI 5.7.4 allows a local, low-privileged, authenticated user to weaken the permissions of files, resulting in low-privileged users being able to write to and execute arbitrary PHP code with root privileges.
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References
1- www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2020-61nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
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