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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-13977

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.

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1 Nov 2026, 07:28 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-13977

core-osv · Original source

Published 9 Jun 2020, 14:15 UTC

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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    "summary": "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.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:53.738412038Z",
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      "references": [
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        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/H7T6MSDWMBJEVVFSOK7DOYJJWDAFQCEQ/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JUEIABR4Y6L5J5MZDFWU46ZWXMJO64U3/",
        "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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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 437994,
  "published_at": "2020-06-09T14:15:10.063+00:00"
}