Upstream information

CVE-2014-2913 at MITRE

Description

** DISPUTED ** 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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.5
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 874743 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

  • SUSE-SU-2014:0682-1, published Tue May 20 11:04:12 MDT 2014
  • openSUSE-SU-2014:0594-1 openSUSE-SU-2014:0603-1

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP3
  • nagios-nrpe >= 2.12-24.4.10.1
  • nagios-nrpe-doc >= 2.12-24.4.10.1
  • nagios-plugins-nrpe >= 2.12-24.4.10.1
Patchnames:
slessp3-nagios-nrpe
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
  • nagios-nrpe >= 2.12-24.4.10.1
  • nagios-nrpe-doc >= 2.12-24.4.10.1
  • nagios-plugins-nrpe >= 2.12-24.4.10.1
Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 GA nagios-nrpe-2.12-24.4.10.1
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • monitoring-plugins-nrpe >= 4.0.3-3.5
  • nrpe >= 4.0.3-3.5
  • nrpe-doc >= 4.0.3-3.5
Patchnames:
openSUSE Tumbleweed GA monitoring-plugins-nrpe-4.0.3-3.5


Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SLES for SAP Applications 11 SP2 nagios-nrpe Released
SLES for SAP Applications 11 SP3 nagios-nrpe Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Enterprise Server 11 SP1 for SAP Enterprise Search nagios-nrpe Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 nagios-nrpe Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS nagios-nrpe Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 nagios-nrpe Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 LTSS nagios-nrpe Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 nagios-nrpe Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 LTSS nagios-nrpe Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS nagios-nrpe Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 nagios-nrpe Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS nagios-nrpe Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS nagios-nrpe Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Business All-in-One 11 SP1 nagios-nrpe Released


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Apr 22 10:23:16 2014
CVE page last modified: Thu Dec 7 13:14:03 2023