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Servers and applications

CVE-2020-28910

Creation of a Temporary Directory with Insecure Permissions in Nagios XI 5.7.5 and earlier allows for Privilege Escalation via creation of symlinks, which are mishandled in getprofile.sh.

Severity
Critical 9.8
Published
24 May 2021
Last changed
17 Jun 2026
Added to UpHeron
1 Nov 2026
Sources
NVD

Affected software

SoftwareAffected versions
Nagios XIServers and applications · cpe:a:nagios:nagios_xi
  • Every version up to 5.7.5

References

  • NVD https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28910
  • CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-28910