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CVE-2019-9166

HIGH · CVSS 7.8 EPSS 1.24% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2019-03-28 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8. Public exploit code or proof-of-concept references have been detected in its references.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

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CVE
CVE-2019-9166
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.8
EPSS
1.24%

Original NVD Description

Privilege escalation in Nagios XI before 5.5.11 allows local attackers to elevate privileges to root via write access to config.inc.php and import_xiconfig.php.

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