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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 : nagios2, nagios3 vulnerability (USN-795-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 39601

Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that Nagios did not properly parse certain commands submitted using the WAP web interface. An authenticated user could exploit this flaw and execute arbitrary programs on the server.

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/795-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 39601

File Name: ubuntu_USN-795-1.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/3/2009

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nagios2-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nagios2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nagios3-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nagios3-common, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nagios2-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nagios2-dbg, 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/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/2/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/1/2009

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Nagios3 statuswml.cgi Ping Command Execution)

Elliot (Nagios 3.1.0 RCE)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2288

BID: 35464

CWE: 78

USN: 795-1