What is CVE-2008-4796?

CVE-2008-4796 is a vulnerability in Nagios, classified under OS Command Injection. Published 2008-10-30.

Is CVE-2008-4796 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

RCE in Nagios

CVE-2008-4796

The _httpsrequest function (Snoopy/Snoopy.class.php) in Snoopy 1.2.3 and earlier, as used in (1) ampache, (2) libphp-snoopy, (3) mahara, (4) mediamate, (5) opendb, (6) pixelpost, and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in https URLs.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

Published 2008-10-30 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.090 (95.1th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 95th percentile — 95.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.090 · newest: 0.090 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-78 — OS Command Injection

Public proof-of-concept exploits

p1ay8y3ar/cve_

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46068 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/01/1 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2901 (Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496068/100/0/threaded (mailing-list, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/31887 (Patch, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN20502807/index.html (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php (Patch, Third Party Advisory, Broken Link)
www.nagios.org/projects/nagios-core/history/4x/ (Third Party Advisory)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-26 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2008-4796?: CVE-2008-4796 is a vulnerability in Nagios, classified under OS Command Injection. Published 2008-10-30.
Is CVE-2008-4796 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.