Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package nagios-nrpe  (opens in a new tab)


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Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
93.68% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1704-NAGIOSNRPE-638673
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed9 Jul 2013

Introduced: 9 Jul 2013

CVE-2013-1362  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:17.04.

NVD Description

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

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in nrpc.c in Nagios Remote Plug-In Executor (NRPE) before 2.14 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands via "$()" shell metacharacters, which are processed by bash.