UBUNTU-CVE-2020-6581

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-6581
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2020/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-6581.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-6581
Upstream
Published
2020-03-16T18:15:00Z
Modified
2025-10-24T04:48:18Z
Severity
  • 7.3 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - low
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / nagios-nrpe

Package

Name
nagios-nrpe
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/nagios-nrpe@3.2.1-1ubuntu1?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*
3.2.0-4ubuntu2
3.2.1-1ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "3.2.1-1ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "nagios-nrpe-plugin"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "3.2.1-1ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "nagios-nrpe-server"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2020/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-6581.json"