CVE-2012-6096: Icinga

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 66.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the get_history function in history.cgi in Nagios Core before 3.4.4, and Icinga 1.6.x before 1.6.2, 1.7.x before 1.7.4, and 1.8.x before 1.8.4, might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long (1) host_name variable (host parameter) or (2) svc_description variable.

Affected products

• Icinga Icinga: version 1.6.0 only; version 1.6.1 only; version 1.7.0 only; version 1.7.1 only; version 1.7.2 only; version 1.7.3 only; …
• Nagios Nagios: up to and including 3.4.3; version 3.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only; version 3.0.3 only; version 3.0.4 only; …

Published 2013-01-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.