A file disclosure and inclusion vulnerability exists in web/views/file.php in ZoneMinder 1.x through v1.30.0 because of unfiltered user-input being passed to readfile(), which allows an authenticated attacker to read local system files (e.g., /etc/passwd) in the context of the web server user (www-data). The attack vector is a .. (dot dot) in the path parameter within a zm/index.php?view=file&path= request.

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

  - A file disclosure and inclusion vulnerability exists in web/views/file.php in ZoneMinder 1.x through     v1.30.0 because of unfiltered user-input being passed to readfile(), which allows an authenticated     attacker to read local system files (e.g., /etc/passwd) in the context of the web server user (www-data).
    The attack vector is a .. (dot dot) in the path parameter within a zm/index.php?view=file&path= request.
    (CVE-2017-5595)

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

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in zoneminder. This update fixes only a serious file disclosure vulnerability (CVE-2017-5595).

The application has been found to suffer from many other problems such as SQL injection vulnerabilities, cross-site scripting issues, cross-site request forgery, session fixation vulnerability. Due to the amount of issues and to the relative invasiveness of the relevant patches, those issues will not be fixed in Wheezy. We thus advise you to restrict access to zoneminder to trusted users only. If you want to review the list of ignored issues, you can check the security tracker:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/zoneminder

We recommend that you upgrade your zoneminder packages.

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

Security fix for CVE-2017-5595

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
254081	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-5595	Nessus	Misc.	medium
104184	Debian DLA-1145-1 : zoneminder security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
97250	Fedora 24 : zoneminder (2017-d5fb74cd2e)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
97243	Fedora 25 : zoneminder (2017-2bb174ae3c)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

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