A vulnerability was found in Nagios Nagios-plugins up to 2.4.4. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function check_by_ssh. The manipulation of the argument ProxyCommand/LocalCommand/PermitLocalCommand leads to Privilege Escalation.

This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2023-37154. The attack needs to be done within the local network. There is no exploit available.

It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.