Nagios XI Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Added to KEV
2021-11-03
Federal due date
2022-05-03
Vendor
Nagios
Product
Nagios XI
EPSS
99.4th percentile (score 0.869, as of 2026-06-08)
NVD CVSS v3.1
Ransomware use
Unknown
Upstream
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15949

CISA short description

Nagios XI contains a remote code execution vulnerability in which a user can modify the check_plugin executable and insert malicious commands to execute as root.

Required action

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EPSS percentile is the FIRST.org exploit-probability ranking as of the date noted above; it moves daily. CVSS reflects NVD's analysis at time of publication.