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monitoring-plugins — security advisory
check_by_ssh in Nagios nagios-plugins 2.4.5 allows arbitrary command execution via ProxyCommand, LocalCommand, and PermitLocalCommand with \${IFS}. This has been categorized both as fixed in e8810de, and as intended behavior.
- Products
- monitoring-plugins
- Affected versions
- 2.1.2-2ubuntu1, 2.1.2-2ubuntu2, 2.2-3ubuntu1, 2.2-3ubuntu2, 2.2-3ubuntu3, 2.2-3ubuntu3.18.04.1, 2.2-6build2, 2.2-6ubuntu1, 2.2-6ubuntu1.1, 2.2-6ubuntu1.2, 2.3.1-1ubuntu2, 2.3.1-1ubuntu3, 2.3.1-1ubuntu4, 2.3.3-6ubuntu1, 2.3.5-1ubuntu1, 2.3.5-1ubuntu2, 2.3.5-1ubuntu3, 2.4.0-1ubuntu1, 2.4.0-1ubuntu2, 2.4.0-1ubuntu4
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-37154
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 01:03 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
check_by_ssh in Nagios nagios-plugins 2.4.5 allows arbitrary command execution via ProxyCommand, LocalCommand, and PermitLocalCommand with \${IFS}. This has been categorized both as fixed in e8810de, and as intended behavior.
osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2023-37154
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Complete source record
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