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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-6581: nrpe Multiple vulnerabilities

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-6581: nrpe Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/16/2020
Created
01/06/2021
Added
01/05/2021
Modified
01/05/2021

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-nrpe

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