CVE-2026-48551 (GCVE-0-2026-48551)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-12 16:32
Modified
2026-08-14 16:49
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:H/SA:N
7.4 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-352 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Summary
Nagios Core before 4.5.14 and Nagios XI before 2026R1.7 contain a cross-site request forgery protection bypass via a self-supplied double-submit cookie. An attacker can supply matching cookie and request parameter values to bypass CSRF protection, enabling unauthenticated attackers to run commands as authorized users via malicious links.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Nagios Enterprises, LLC. Nagios Core Version: 0   ≤
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