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critical 9.8

CVE-2016-0726 json

The Fedora Nagios package uses "nagiosadmin" as the default password for the "nagiosadmin" administrator account, which makes it easier for…

published 2017-06-06 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-0755

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.3%
EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 83%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The Fedora Nagios package uses "nagiosadmin" as the default password for the "nagiosadmin" administrator account, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain access by leveraging knowledge of the credentials.

Patch / fix

  • nagios openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.4.6-2.5

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11073-1

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-2016-0726 updated cvss 6.8

nagios: Configured administrative account with fixed password and no IP restriction as default

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 (Icehouse) nagios Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 (Juno) nagios Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo) nagios, nagios-common Red Hat Storage 3 nagios, nagios-common
    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

Exploit prediction

2.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials

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.