7.3

CVE-2020-6581: fedoraproject fedora

CVSS: 7.3v3.1HighModified
AliasesALPINE-CVE-2020-6581UBUNTU-CVE-2020-6581DEBIAN-CVE-2020-6581
Published 16-03-2020Last modified 04-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2020-6581 is a high (CVSS 7.3) vulnerability in fedoraproject fedora. EPSS estimates a 1.61% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 75.7% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Overall risk
40/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.3/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.61%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits1reference

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1
MGASA-2020-0247

Timeline

  1. 16-03-2020
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 04-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.61%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

76%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.61% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
1.61%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

1 found
  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (herolab.usd.de)

    Maturity: unknown

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Alpine1 product
  • nrpe< 4.0.0-r0
Debian1 product
  • nagios-nrpe< 4.0.0-1
Fedoraproject1 product
Nagios1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • nagios-nrpeAll versions (No fix recorded)

5 vendors · 5 products

References

7 links