Medium
Security advisory
Nagios 4.4.5 allows an attacker, who already has administrative access to change the "URL for JSON CGIs" configuration setting, to modify the Alert Histogram and Trends code via crafted versions of the archivejson.cgi, objectjson.cgi, and statusjson.cgi files. NOTE: this vulnerability has been mistakenly associated with CVE-2020-1408.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-13977
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:28 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Nagios 4.4.5 allows an attacker, who already has administrative access to change the "URL for JSON CGIs" configuration setting, to modify the Alert Histogram and Trends code via crafted versions of the archivejson.cgi, objectjson.cgi, and statusjson.cgi files. NOTE: this vulnerability has been mistakenly associated with CVE-2020-1408.
osv:CVE-2020-13977
Complete source record
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"references": [
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5P6NHNG2SJAM6DXVTXQH3AOJ4WQVKJUE/",
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/H7T6MSDWMBJEVVFSOK7DOYJJWDAFQCEQ/",
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"https://github.com/sawolf/nagioscore/tree/url-injection-fix",
"https://www.nagios.org/projects/nagios-core/history/4x/",
"https://anhtai.me/nagios-core-4-4-5-url-injection/"
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