Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in smokeping_cgi in Smokeping 2.4.2, 2.6.6, and other versions before 2.6.7 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the displaymode parameter.

Update to latest upstream release smokeping 2.6.9. The update contains an important security fix, correcting a cross-site scripting flaw.

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.

A cross-site scripting vulnerability was discovered in smokeping, a latency logging and graphing system. Input passed to the 'displaymode'parameter was not properly sanitized. An attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in the context of an affected site.

Backport of security issue resolved in smokeping 2.6.7.

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
69360	Fedora 19 : smokeping-2.6.9-1.fc19 (2013-14278)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
69359	Fedora 18 : smokeping-2.6.9-1.fc18 (2013-14261)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
65635	Debian DSA-2651-1 : smokeping - XSS vulnerability	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
57756	Fedora 15 : smokeping-2.4.2-13.fc15 (2012-0813)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
57755	Fedora 16 : smokeping-2.4.2-16.fc16 (2012-0801)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2012-0790

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Tenable Plugins

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