Executive Summary

Summary
Title Nagstamon: Information disclosure
Informations
Name GLSA-201401-03 First vendor Publication 2014-01-06
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2014-01-06
Severity (Vendor) High Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A vulnerability in Nagstamon could expose user credentials to a remote attacker.

Background

Nagstamon is a Nagios status monitor application.

Description

Nagstamon's automatic request to check for updates includes plaintext username and password information for one of the monitor servers that the Nagstamon instance connects to.

Impact

A remote attacker could eavesdrop on this request and gain user credentials for a monitor server.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Nagstamon users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot -v ">=net-analyzer/nagstamon-0.9.11_rc1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2013-4114 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-4114

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201401-03.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201401-03.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-255 Credentials Management

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 29

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2013-601.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-01-07 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201401-03.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-16 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2013-12526.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-16 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2013-12541.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2014-02-17 11:38:00
  • Multiple Updates
2014-01-06 21:19:02
  • First insertion