Nagios XI < 2011R1.9 Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 8363

Synopsis

A vulnerable version of Nagios XI has been detected.

Description

Versions of Nagios XI prior to 2011R1.9 are affected by multiple vulnerabilities:

- A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the method used to install RPMs.

- A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the method used to edit crontab files.

- Multiple reflective cross-site scripting vulnerabilities exist due to the failure to sanitize GET request query strings.

- A stored cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the 'reports/myreports.php' script due to the failure to sanitize the report name.

Solution

Upgrade to Nagios XI 2011R1.9 or later.

See Also

http://0a29.blogspot.com/2011/12/0a29-11-4-privilege-escalation.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520876/30/0/threaded

http://0a29.blogspot.ca/2011/12/0a29-11-3-cross-site-scripting.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520875/30/0/threaded

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/CHANGES-2011.TXT

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 8363

Family: CGI

Published: 8/22/2014

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 61429

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:nagios:nagios_xi

Patch Publication Date: 12/14/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/13/2011

Reference Information

BID: 51069, 51072