CVE-2025-34288

Nagios XI Privilege Escalation via Writable PHP Include Executed with Sudo

State
Published
Severity
8.6 High
Published
Dec 16, 2025
Updated
May 14, 2026
Reserved
Apr 15, 2025

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Description

Nagios XI versions prior to 2026R1.1 are vulnerable to local privilege escalation due to an unsafe interaction between sudo permissions and application file permissions. A user‑accessible maintenance script may be executed as root via sudo and includes an application file that is writable by a lower‑privileged user. A local attacker with access to the application account can modify this file to introduce malicious code, which is then executed with elevated privileges when the script is run. Successful exploitation results in arbitrary code execution as the root user.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.08.6 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NVulnCheck

Weaknesses

  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Nagios XINagios Enterprises
  • before 2026R1.1Affected

References

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