Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-24401

Critical

Published: 26 February 2024

Published
26 February 2024
Modified
27 June 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.3910 97.4th percentile
Risk Priority 43 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-24401 is a critical-severity SQL Injection (CWE-89) vulnerability in Nagios Nagios Xi. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 2.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Deeper analysis

CVE-2024-24401 is a SQL injection vulnerability, tracked under CWE-89, that affects Nagios XI version 2024R1.01. The flaw resides in the monitoringwizard.php component and carries a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.8, reflecting network-accessible, unauthenticated attack vectors that can result in complete loss of confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

A remote attacker can supply a crafted payload to monitoringwizard.php and leverage the injection to execute arbitrary code on the affected Nagios XI instance without requiring credentials or user interaction.

The supplied references point to the Nagios changelog pages, which typically document version updates and fixes for the product line.

EPSS for the CVE rose from lower values to a peak of 0.5797 on 2026-03-16 before receding to the current score of 0.3910, indicating that exploitation interest increased substantially after public disclosure.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

SQL Injection vulnerability in Nagios XI 2024R1.01 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via a crafted payload to the monitoringwizard.php component.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

nagios
nagios xi
2024

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-89

Penetration testing uses SQL injection payloads against database interfaces, identifying and supporting fixes for SQL injection weaknesses.

addresses: CWE-89

Validates query inputs to prevent SQL syntax or command manipulation.

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