CVE-2020-6581

PoC —

CVSS 3.1

7.3 high

EPSS

2%p75

Published

Mar 16, 2020 (Mar 16, 2020)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

Nagios NRPE 3.2.1 has Insufficient Filtering because, for example, nasty_metachars interprets \n as the character \ and the character n (not as the \n newline sequence). This can cause command injection.

Vendors: nagios fedoraproject
Products: remote plug in executor, fedora
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (1.6%)

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