ganglia-web before 3.7.1 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - ganglia-web before 3.7.1 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication. (CVE-2015-6816)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Update to ganglia-web 3.7.1, including security fix for CVE-2015-6816.

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

Ganglia-web auth can be bypassed using boolean serialization (CVE-2015-6816).

Ivan Novikov reports :

It's easy to bypass auth by using boolean serialization...

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
254003	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2015-6816	Nessus	Misc.	critical
89452	Fedora 22 : ganglia-3.7.2-6.fc22 (2015-ee7a2b5844)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
89436	Fedora 23 : ganglia-3.7.2-6.fc23 (2015-de8ba28354)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
89367	Fedora 21 : ganglia-3.7.2-6.fc21 (2015-accdc7ebfc)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
87016	Amazon Linux AMI : ganglia (ALAS-2015-612)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	critical
85863	FreeBSD : ganglia-webfrontend -- auth bypass (d68df01b-564e-11e5-9ad8-14dae9d210b8)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	critical

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