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Nagios Log Server CVE-2025-34273

HIGH
Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863)
2025-10-30 disclosure@vulncheck.com
7.1
CVSS 4.0 · Vendor: vulncheck
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Authenticate as low-privileged user
  2. Exploit
    Access global dashboard deletion workflow
  3. Execution
    Submit delete request bypassing authorization check
  4. Impact
    Remove global dashboards affecting all users

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Authorization logic validation
MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation

The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up.

Exploitation Conditions

Requires a valid authenticated account with non-administrator (low) privileges on a Nagios Log Server instance running a version prior to 2024R2.0.3; the attacker must reach the global dashboard deletion workflow, where the missing authorization check lets a lower-privileged user perform an action reserved for administrators. Limiting factors: exploitation cannot be performed by an unauthenticated attacker (PR:L), no victim user interaction is needed (UI:N), and impact is confined to removing/altering global dashboards (integrity/availability of the monitoring UI) with no data disclosure or code execution. Risk is highest in multi-user/multi-tenant deployments where non-admin accounts are broadly provisioned.

Impact

This is a medium-severity authorization flaw (CVSS 4.0 base 7.1, CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization) whose real-world priority is moderate rather than urgent. The CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N) indicates a network-reachable, low-complexity attack but one that explicitly requires an authenticated low-privileged account (PR:L) - this is a post-authentication privilege/authorization issue, not an unauthenticated breach. Impact is skewed toward integrity (VI:H) with limited availability impact (VA:L) and no confidentiality impact (VC:N): an attacker cannot read data or take over the host, only destroy/remove global dashboards that affect other users and the monitoring UI. No EPSS score, CISA KEV listing, SSVC decision data, or public POC was supplied in the intelligence, so exploitation-probability signals are absent and cannot be used to raise or lower priority. No active exploitation is indicated. Net assessment: a legitimate issue worth patching, especially in multi-tenant monitoring deployments, but it is a bounded integrity/availability problem gated behind valid credentials rather than a critical remote-takeover bug - the 7.1 score is driven largely by VI:H and should be read in light of the PR:L precondition.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker who already holds a legitimate non-administrator account on a Nagios Log Server instance (for example a read-only monitoring operator) navigates to the global dashboard deletion workflow and issues a delete request that the application fails to authorize against their role. The deletion succeeds, removing dashboards relied upon by administrators and other users and disrupting the shared monitoring UI. No public exploit code was identified in the provided data; exploitation requires valid low-privilege credentials and no user interaction from a victim.

This Week Schedule remediation this week. Why: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9).
No patch listed yet 1.0% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Oct 07, 2026

Non-administrator accounts on Nagios Log Server can delete global dashboards they should not be able to touch, because versions prior to 2024R2.0.3 fail to enforce authorization checks in the global dashboard deletion workflow (CWE-863, Incorrect Authorization). Exploitation requires a valid authenticated account with low privileges (CVSS 4.0 PR:L, UI:N) and is confined to integrity and availability impact on the shared monitoring UI, with no data disclosure or code execution, which is why the assessed CVSS 3.1 vector (7.1 under CVSS 4.0) maps to a moderate rather than urgent operational priority. No public exploit code and no confirmed active exploitation (CISA KEV) were identified at time of analysis.

RemediationAI

Upgrade to Nagios Log Server 2024R2.0.3 or later, which is the vendor-released fix identified by the advisory at https://www.nagios.com/products/security/#log-server-2024R2 and the changelog at https://www.nagios.com/changelog/#log-server; there is no documented standalone patch, so the release upgrade is the primary action. Where upgrading cannot be done immediately, token-based compensating controls apply: inventory and prune non-administrator accounts on the Log Server instance, since the flaw requires only a low-privilege login and exposure scales directly with the number of such accounts in multi-tenant deployments - the trade-off is reduced operator access for legitimate monitoring staff; restrict reachability of the web UI to trusted administrators via network ACLs, VPN or an authenticating reverse proxy, accepting that non-admin users lose dashboard access entirely; and enable and forward Log Server audit/application logs to detect unexpected dashboard deletions, which is detective only and adds log volume but can surface abuse of this weakness. No configuration toggle specifically disabling the global dashboard deletion workflow is documented in the available references. The VulnCheck advisory at https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/nagios-log-server-non-admin-dashboard-deletion (credited to disclosure@vulncheck.com) provides additional tracking detail.

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Technical ContextAI · show details

Nagios Log Server is a centralized log management and monitoring platform whose web interface presents dashboards that are shared across the user base; 'global' dashboards are, by design, administrative objects that shape what every user sees. The root cause falls under CWE-863, Incorrect Authorization: the application authenticated the requester but did not verify that the account held an administrative role before executing the global dashboard deletion routine, so the authorization decision was made client-side or not at all on the server. CPE data pins the affected component as cpe:2.3:a:nagios:log_server, enumerating 2024:r1, 2024:r1.0.1, 2024:r1.0.2, 2024:r1.1, 2024:r1.2, 2024:r1.3, 2024:r1.3.1, 2024:r1.3.2 and 2024:r1.3.3 alongside a wildcard entry for all releases before 2024R2.0.3, indicating the defect spanned the entire 2024 R1 series. The action is network-reachable (AV:N), requires no victim interaction (UI:N), and needs only a provisioned low-privilege login (PR:L), so in multi-user or multi-tenant deployments where non-admin accounts are widely issued, any such account can remove dashboards that other operators rely on. Note that some feed tags label this issue 'Authentication Bypass', but both the disclosed vector (PR:L) and the vendor description describe a post-authentication authorization failure, not a bypass of authentication itself.

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Severity by source

Vendor (vulncheck) PRIMARY 7.1 HIGH
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
vuln.today AI 7.1 HIGH

Network-reachable workflow (AV:N/AC:L) but requires an authenticated low-privilege account (PR:L); destroying global dashboards is high integrity impact with low availability impact and no confidentiality impact.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (vulncheck).

CVSS VectorVendor: vulncheck

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Attack Requirements
None
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Vulnerable system: Confidentiality
None
Vulnerable system: Integrity
High
Vulnerable system: Availability
Low
Subsequent system: Confidentiality
None
Subsequent system: Integrity
None
Subsequent system: Availability
None

DescriptionCVE.org

Nagios Log Server versions prior to 2024R2.0.3 contain an incorrect authorization vulnerability that allows non-administrator users to delete global dashboards. The application did not correctly enforce authorization checks for the global dashboard deletion workflow, enabling lower-privileged users to remove dashboards that affect other users or the overall monitoring UI.

Executive ViewAI

Why It Matters

Nagios Log Server instances running versions earlier than 2024R2.0.3 let ordinary authenticated users delete shared global dashboards, degrading the integrity and availability of the monitoring views that security and operations teams depend on. The exposure is bounded - it requires a valid low-privilege account and involves no data disclosure or code execution - so this is a governance and monitoring-visibility risk rather than a breach vector. Leadership should care because tampering with shared dashboards can quietly blind detection and response workflows, and remediation depends on upgrading a platform that currently has no vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis.

Business Impact: Medium
Compensating Controls

No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis; interim mitigations are to restrict global dashboard deletion privileges to trusted administrators only (least-privilege RBAC), enable audit logging and alerting on dashboard deletion events, maintain offline backups/exports of critical global dashboards, and monitor vendor advisories for a fix, with upgrade to 2024R2.0.3 or later as the durable remediation once available and validated.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
1.0%
Top 37% exploitable
Prevalence
Medium
specific vendor monitoring product, common in IT ops but not everywhere
Data Quality
2 sources
Confidence: Low

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity HIGH
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 1.0%
Patch available No
Active threat No
Deciding rule
HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation· derived
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable· derived
No
Human Impact
Medium

Priority Score

37
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: +1
CVSS: +36
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.

Affected Products (CPE)CVE.org

cpe:2.3:a:nagios:log_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:nagios:log_server:2024:r1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:nagios:log_server:2024:r1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:nagios:log_server:2024:r1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:nagios:log_server:2024:r1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:nagios:log_server:2024:r1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:nagios:log_server:2024:r1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:nagios:log_server:2024:r1.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:nagios:log_server:2024:r1.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:nagios:log_server:2024:r1.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:nagios:log_server:2024:r1.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:nagios:log_server:2024:r1.3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:nagios:log_server:2024:r2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:nagios:log_server:2024:r2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:nagios:log_server:2024:r2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*

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