Arbitrary Code Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package nrpe  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE312-NRPE-1050740
  • published12 Dec 2020
  • disclosed16 Mar 2020

Introduced: 16 Mar 2020

CVE-2020-6581  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-74  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Alpine security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Alpine:3.12.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nrpe package and not the nrpe package as distributed by Alpine.

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.