CVE-2014-2913

Exp

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in nrpe.c in Nagios Remote Plugin Executor (NRPE) 2.15 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a newline character in the -a option to libexec/check_nrpe. NOTE: this issue is disputed by multiple parties. It has been reported that the vendor allows newlines as "expected behavior." Also, this issue can only occur when the administrator enables the "dont_blame_nrpe" option in nrpe.conf despite the "HIGH security risk" warning within the comments

Published: 2014-05-07 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2014-2913 is rated High Exploit Risk (75.5/100): CVSS High severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 15.31%, 96th percentile). 4 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2014-2913

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
34461 exploit_db edb 2014-08-29 Exploit-DB ↗
32925 exploit_db edb 2014-04-18 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2014-2913

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 18.57% 15.31% -3.26%
2 2026-04-15 14.24% 18.57% +4.33%
3 2025-12-21 — 14.24% —

Full EPSS history (19 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2014-2913

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.5 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 10.0 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2014-2913

OS Trackers for CVE-2014-2913

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2014-2913 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (nagios-nrpe), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-2913
gentoo normal CVE-2014-2913: 1 GLSA(s) (201408-18), 1 atom(s) (net-analyzer/nrpe); latest impact normal. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2014-2913
redhat high — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-2913
ubuntu low CVE-2014-2913 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (nagios-nrpe), 26 status rows across 26 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lucid, lunar, mantic, noble, precise, quantal, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 19, not-affected 5, DNE 1, needed 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-2913

NVD evaluator notes for CVE-2014-2913

Impact: Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/184.html "CWE-184: Incomplete Blacklist"

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2014-2913

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
nagios remote_plugin_executor <= 2.15 cpe:2.3:a:nagios:remote_plugin_executor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
opensuse opensuse 11.4 cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:11.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
opensuse opensuse 12.3 cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
opensuse opensuse 13.1 cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2014-2913

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