CVE-2014-1878

medium
Published 2014-02-28 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the cmd_submitf function in cgi/cmd.c in Nagios Core, possibly 4.0.3rc1 and earlier, and Icinga before 1.8.6, 1.9 before 1.9.5, and 1.10 before 1.10.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a long message to cmd.cgi.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
icingaicinga{"endIncluding":"1.8.5"}
icingaicinga1.8.0
icingaicinga1.8.1
icingaicinga1.8.2
icingaicinga1.8.3
icingaicinga1.8.4
icingaicinga1.9.0
icingaicinga1.9.1
icingaicinga1.9.2
icingaicinga1.9.3
icingaicinga1.9.4
icingaicinga1.10.0
icingaicinga1.10.1
icingaicinga1.10.2
nagiosnagios{"endIncluding":"4.0.3"}
nagiosnagios4.0.0
nagiosnagios4.0.2

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.