Information disclosure in Nagios

CVE-2014-4702

The check_icmp plugin in Nagios Plugins before 2.0.2 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from INI configuration files via the extra-opts flag, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-4701.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published 2014-12-05 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 2.1 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (33.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 33rd percentile — 33.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Nagios

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

secunia.com/advisories/61319 (third-party-advisory)
secunia.com/advisories/58751 (third-party-advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/68293 (vdb-entry)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/30/6 (mailing-list)
nagios-plugins.org/nagios-plugins-2-0-2-released/ (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2014/suse-su-20141352-1.html (vendor-advisory)