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CVE-2014-2913 in the critical feed json

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in nrpe.c in Nagios Remote Plugin Executor (NRPE) 2.15 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute ar…

published 2014-05-07 12 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2014-2936

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
15.3%
EPSS 15.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
2
Exploit-DB

Summary

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in nrpe.c in Nagios Remote Plugin Executor (NRPE) 2.15 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a newline character in the -a option to libexec/check_nrpe. NOTE: this issue is disputed by multiple parties. It has been reported that the vendor allows newlines as "expected behavior." Also, this issue can only occur when the administrator enables the "dont_blame_nrpe" option in nrpe.conf despite the "HIGH security risk" warning within the comments

Patch / fix

  • nagios-nrpe Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.15-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-2913

  • nrpe SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5 2.15-6.6.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2024:1417-1

  • nrpe openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.0.3-3.5

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11099-1

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-2014-2913 updated cvss 7.5

nrpe: remote command execution when command arguments are enabled

  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 3 nrpe Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4 nrpe
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

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 (EDB-32925)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

15.31% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-34461 NRPE 2.15 - Remote Code Execution remote, 2014-08-29
  • EDB-32925 NRPE 2.15 - Remote Command Execution remote, 2014-04-18
  • seclists.org http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Apr/240 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • seclists.org http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Apr/242 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

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

References

Sources

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