7.5

CVE-2006-2489: nagios

CVSS: 7.5v2.0HighModified
Published 19-05-2006Last modified 07-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2006-2489 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in nagios. EPSS estimates a 5.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
31/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
5.43%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1
DSA-1072-1

Timeline

  1. 19-05-2006
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Integer overflow in CGI scripts in Nagios 1.x before 1.4.1 and 2.x before 2.3.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a content length (Content-Length) HTTP header. NOTE: this is a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-2162.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

5.43%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

93%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 5.43% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
5.43%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Nagios1 product
  • nagios1.0 | 1.0b1 | 1.0b2 | 1.0b3 | 1.0b4 | 1.0b5 | 1.0b6 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 2.0 | 2.0b1 | 2.0b2 | 2.0b3 | 2.0b4 | 2.0b5 | 2.0b6 | 2.0rc1 | 2.0rc2 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 2.3

1 vendor · 1 product

References

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