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Ubuntu 18.10 / 19.04 : Monit vulnerabilities (USN-3971-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 124718

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Zack Flack discovered that Monit incorrectly handled certain input. A remote authenticated user could exploit this to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. (CVE-2019-11454)

Zack Flack discovered a buffer overread when Monit decoded certain crafted URLs. An attacker could exploit this to leak potentially sensitive information. (CVE-2019-11455).

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 monit package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3971-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 124718

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3971-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/9/2019

Updated: 5/24/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11455

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:monit, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10

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: 5/8/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/22/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-11454, CVE-2019-11455

USN: 3971-1