Ubuntu 8.04 LTS : nagios2 vulnerabilities (USN-698-3)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 37968

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

It was discovered that Nagios was vulnerable to a Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability. If an authenticated nagios user were tricked into clicking a link on a specially crafted web page, an attacker could trigger commands to be processed by Nagios and execute arbitrary programs. This update alters Nagios behaviour by disabling submission of CMD_CHANGE commands. (CVE-2008-5028)

It was discovered that Nagios did not properly parse commands submitted using the web interface. An authenticated user could use a custom form or a browser addon to bypass security restrictions and submit unauthorized commands. (CVE-2008-5027).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/698-3/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 37968

File Name: ubuntu_USN-698-3.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/23/2009

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nagios2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nagios2-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nagios2-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nagios2-doc, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Patch Publication Date: 12/23/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-5027, CVE-2008-5028

CWE: 264, 352

USN: 698-3