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high 7.5

CVE-2012-6096 in the critical feed json

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the get_history function in history.cgi in Nagios Core before 3.4.4, and Icinga 1.6.x before 1.6.2…

published 2013-01-22 13 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2012-5966

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
66.5%
EPSS 66.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.2%
public exploits
3
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the get_history function in history.cgi in Nagios Core before 3.4.4, and Icinga 1.6.x before 1.6.2, 1.7.x before 1.7.4, and 1.8.x before 1.8.4, might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long (1) host_name variable (host parameter) or (2) svc_description variable.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2012-6096 updated cvss 5.0

nagios: stack-based buffer overflow in history.cgi

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/unix/webapp/nagios3_history_cgi)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

66.45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.2% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.