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CVE-2013-1362

Publication date 9 July 2013

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
nagios-nrpe 17.04 zesty
Not affected
16.10 yakkety
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
15.10 wily
Not affected
15.04 vivid
Not affected
14.10 utopic
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
13.10 saucy Ignored end of life
13.04 raring Ignored end of life
12.10 quantal Ignored end of life
12.04 LTS precise Ignored end of life
11.10 oneiric Ignored end of life
10.04 LTS lucid Ignored end of life
8.04 LTS hardy Ignored end of life

Notes

jdstrand

This is a problem but requires 'dont_blame_nrpe' to be set in /etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg. This is set to '0' in Ubuntu and there are significant warnings in /etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg about the security risks of enabling external command arguments.