Nagios 4.4.5 allows an attacker, who already has administrative access to change the "URL for JSON CGIs" configuration setting, to modify the Alert Histogram and Trends code via crafted versions of the archivejson.cgi, objectjson.cgi, and statusjson.cgi files. NOTE: this vulnerability has been mistakenly associated with CVE-2020-1408.

This update for nagios fixes the following issues :

  - new nagios-exec-start-post script to fix boo#1003362

  - fix nagios_upgrade.sh writing to log file in user     controlled directory (boo#1182398). The     nagios_upgrade.sh script writes the logfile directly     below /var/log/ 

nagios was updated to 4.4.6 :

  - Fixed Map display in Internet Explorer 11 (#714)

  - Fixed duplicate properties appearing in statusjson.cgi     (#718)

  - Fixed NERD not building when enabled in ./configure     (#723)

  - Fixed build process when using GCC 10 (#721)

  - Fixed postauth vulnerabilities in histogram.js, map.js,     trends.js (CVE-2020-13977, boo#1172794)

  - When using systemd, configuration will be verified     before reloading (#715)

  - Fixed HARD OK states triggering on the maximum check     attempt (#757)

  - Fix for CVE-2016-6209 (boo#989759) - The 'corewindow'     parameter (as in bringing this to our attention go to     Dawid Golunski (boo#1014637)

The remote Fedora 33 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2021-5689072a7e advisory.

  - Nagios 4.4.5 allows an attacker, who already has administrative access to change the URL for JSON CGIs     configuration setting, to modify the Alert Histogram and Trends code via crafted versions of the     archivejson.cgi, objectjson.cgi, and statusjson.cgi files. NOTE: this vulnerability has been mistakenly     associated with CVE-2020-1408. (CVE-2020-13977)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 32 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2021-b5e897a2e5 advisory.

  - Nagios 4.4.5 allows an attacker, who already has administrative access to change the URL for JSON CGIs     configuration setting, to modify the Alert Histogram and Trends code via crafted versions of the     archivejson.cgi, objectjson.cgi, and statusjson.cgi files. NOTE: this vulnerability has been mistakenly     associated with CVE-2020-1408. (CVE-2020-13977)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
149530	openSUSE Security Update : nagios (openSUSE-2021-715)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
147186	Fedora 33 : nagios (2021-5689072a7e)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
147185	Fedora 32 : nagios (2021-b5e897a2e5)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2020-13977

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Tenable Plugins

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medium

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