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Ubuntu 8.10 : nagios3 vulnerabilities (USN-698-2)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 37447
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
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 37447
File Name: ubuntu_USN-698-2.nasl
Version: 1.14
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 4/23/2009
Updated: 1/19/2021
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous 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:nagios3-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nagios3-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nagios3-doc, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nagios3
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release
Patch Publication Date: 12/22/2008
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2008-5027, CVE-2008-5028