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DEBIAN-CVE-2020-6581
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...
Original description
The description as published by the source.
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.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV
Affected packages
Debian:12
nagios-nrpe
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.0.0-1"}]}]
Debian:13
nagios-nrpe
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.0.0-1"}]}]
Debian:14
nagios-nrpe
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.0.0-1"}]}]
References
- advisory security-tracker.debian.org