CVE-2023-47408 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in the Nagios XI Host Configuration page affecting Nagios XI v5.11.1. According to the provided context, an administrator can inject commands on the Nagios XI server by entering shell commands surrounded by backticks into host/service argument input fields such as $ARG1$ and $ARG2$. The flaw is described as occurring in the Host Configuration workflow, where attacker-controlled argument values are later processed in a way that results in command execution on the Nagios server.
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A high-severity command injection flaw in the Nagios XI host/service configuration workflow that allows an administrator to execute commands on the Nagios server.
A high-severity command injection flaw in Nagios XI service/host configuration that allows an administrator to inject commands via service argument fields and gain code execution on the Nagios XI server.
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