{ "data_type": "CVE", "data_format": "MITRE", "data_version": "4.0", "CVE_data_meta": { "ID": "CVE-2020-5796", "ASSIGNER": "vulnreport@tenable.com", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "vendor_name": "n/a", "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "Nagios XI", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "5.7.4" } ] } } ] } } ] } }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "Local Privilege Escalation" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "refsource": "MISC", "name": "https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2020-61", "url": "https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2020-61" } ] }, "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "Improper preservation of permissions in Nagios XI 5.7.4 allows a local, low-privileged, authenticated user to weaken the permissions of files, resulting in low-privileged users being able to write to and execute arbitrary PHP code with root privileges." } ] } }