Privilege escalation in Nagios Xi

CVE-2024-13997

Nagios XI versions prior to 2024R1.1.3 contain a privilege escalation vulnerability in which an authenticated administrator could leverage the Migrate Server feature to obtain root privileges on the underlying XI host. By abusing the migration workflow, an admin-level attacker could execute actions outside the intended security scope of the application, resulting in full control of the operating system.

Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation

EPSS: 0.011 (62.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.