Security advisory

{
  "id": "933015aa7166922d71cf36f509dcbcab4f83d6ccd9f15884e06a837c428a3e24",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-6581",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2020-6581",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-6581",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2020-6581",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2020-6581"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/nagiosenterprises/nrpe",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "86a77fe3a9cbfae990adc578834fd537f4fa8557"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "86a77fe3a9cbfae990adc578834fd537f4fa8557"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:nagios:remote_plug_in_executor:3.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "3.2.1"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "3.2.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "3.2.1",
            "nrpe-3.2.1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-6581.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:50.431573829Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2DNGKXVDB43E3KQRA6W5QZT3Z46XZLQM/",
        "https://herolab.usd.de/security-advisories/",
        "https://herolab.usd.de/security-advisories/usd-2020-0002/"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "fedoraproject:fedora",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "32"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "32"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2020-6581",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 437244,
  "published_at": "2020-03-16T18:15:12.867+00:00"
}