CVE-2020-28910: Nagios XI

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 5.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Creation of a Temporary Directory with Insecure Permissions in Nagios XI 5.7.5 and earlier allows for Privilege Escalation via creation of symlinks, which are mishandled in getprofile.sh.

Affected products

• Nagios Nagios XI: up to and including 5.7.5

Published 2021-05-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.