Fedora 23 : monitorix-3.8.1-1.fc23 (2015-b6b8582f4e)

high Nessus Plugin ID 89380

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This is a maintenance release that mainly fixes a Document Object Model (DOM)-based cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the monitorix.cgi file. Such vulnerability is by injection a JS code in the when parameter of the URL shown after generating the graphs.
Additionally, a potential denial of service (DoS) issue was discovered in the same when parameter of the URL which could lead in the creation of an enormous amount of .png files in the imgs directory of the server.

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.

Solution

Update the affected monitorix package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1281979

http://www.nessus.org/u?31921b48

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 89380

File Name: fedora_2015-b6b8582f4e.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/4/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:monitorix, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 11/19/2015

Reference Information