NRPE: nagios metacharacter filtering omission
Published Jul 9, 2013
7.5
HIGHCVSS 2.0
EPSS 65.72%
Description
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.
Affected products
No data.
Configuration 1
Configuration 2
- ≤ 2.13
- 1.3
- 1.4
- 1.5
- 1.6
- 1.7
- 1.8
- 1.9
- 2.0
- 2.0b1
- 2.0b2
- 2.0b3
- 2.0b4
- 2.0b5
- 2.3
- 2.4
- 2.5
- 2.5.1
- 2.5.2
- 2.6
- 2.7
- 2.7.1
- 2.8
- 2.8.1
- 2.8b1
- 2.9
- 2.10
- 2.11
- 2.12
No data.
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 3
nrpe
Affected
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4
nrpe
Affected
| Product | Package | State | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 3 | nrpe | Affected | n/a |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4 | nrpe | Affected | n/a |
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 3, 2026.
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (14 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 2026 | 65.72% (0.65724) | 99.25th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 65.72% (0.65724) | 99.17th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 76.44% (0.76437) | 98.88th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 79.32% (0.79324) | 98.80th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 76.44% (0.76437) | 98.88th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 93.67% (0.93675) | 99.23th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| May 29, 2024 | 93.81% (0.93813) | 99.12th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jan 25, 2024 | 94.16% (0.94162) | 99.01th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Dec 2, 2023 | 95.21% (0.95214) | 99.15th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Apr 5, 2023 | 95.85% (0.95853) | 99.07th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 95.79% (0.95791) | 99.01th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 79.49% (0.79490) | 99.48th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Dec 11, 2022 | 79.49% (0.79490) | 99.46th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 80.92% (0.80923) | 99.44th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
References (10)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00005.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00006.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2013/Feb/119 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/24955 exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
- http://www.occamsec.com/vulnerabilities.html#nagios_metacharacter_vulnerability x_refsource_MISC
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1362 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807241 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=916947 Issue Tracking
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1362
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-1362
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00005.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE | |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00006.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE | |
| http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2013/Feb/119 | mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ | |
| http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/24955 | exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB | |
| http://www.occamsec.com/vulnerabilities.html#nagios_metacharacter_vulnerability | x_refsource_MISC | |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1362 | Vendor Advisory | |
| https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807241 | x_refsource_CONFIRM | |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=916947 | Issue Tracking | |
| https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1362 | ||
| https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-1362 |
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