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FKIE_CVE-2023-40933

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-09-19 23:15 - Updated: 2026-07-09 01:18

Severity

8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

A SQL injection vulnerability in Nagios XI v5.11.1 and below allows authenticated attackers with announcement banner configuration privileges to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the ID parameter sent to the update_banner_message() function.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	https://outpost24.com/blog/nagios-xi-vulnerabilities/	Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://www.nagios.com/products/security/	Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://outpost24.com/blog/nagios-xi-vulnerabilities/	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.nagios.com/products/security/	Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	nagios	nagios_xi	*

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CVE-2023-40933 (GCVE-0-2023-40933)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-19 00:00 – Updated: 2026-07-09 00:27

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-09-24 20:38 UTC

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://www.nagios.com/products/security/
https://outpost24.com/blog/nagios-xi-vulnerabilities/

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

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Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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