Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title Nagios: Multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-201702-26 First vendor Publication 2017-02-21
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2017-02-21
Severity (Vendor) N/A 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:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 10 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Nagios, the worst of which could lead to privilege escalation.

Background

Nagios is an open source host, service and network monitoring program.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Nagios. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A local attacker, who either is already Nagios's system user or belongs to Nagios's group, could potentially escalate privileges.

In addition, a remote attacker could read or write to arbitrary files by spoofing a crafted response from the Nagios RSS feed server.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Nagios users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/nagios-core-4.2.4"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2008-4796 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-4796
[ 2 ] CVE-2008-7313 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-7313
[ 3 ] CVE-2016-8641 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-8641
[ 4 ] CVE-2016-9565 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9565
[ 5 ] CVE-2016-9566 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9566

Availability

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

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-26

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201702-26.xml

CAPEC : Common Attack Pattern Enumeration & Classification

Id Name
CAPEC-6 Argument Injection
CAPEC-15 Command Delimiters
CAPEC-43 Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers
CAPEC-88 OS Command Injection
CAPEC-108 Command Line Execution through SQL Injection

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
20 % CWE-284 Access Control (Authorization) Issues
20 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
20 % CWE-78 Improper Sanitization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') (CWE/SANS Top 25)
20 % CWE-77 Improper Sanitization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')
20 % CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 86
Application 2
Application 1
Application 168
Os 2

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-12-14 Name : Fedora Core 10 FEDORA-2009-13040 (moodle)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_13040.nasl
2009-09-02 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1871-1 (wordpress)
File : nvt/deb_1871_1.nasl
2009-09-02 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1871-2 (wordpress)
File : nvt/deb_1871_2.nasl
2009-06-30 Name : Ubuntu USN-791-1 (moodle)
File : nvt/ubuntu_791_1.nasl
2009-06-05 Name : Ubuntu USN-698-1 (nagios)
File : nvt/ubuntu_698_1.nasl
2009-04-06 Name : Fedora Core 10 FEDORA-2009-3280 (moodle)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_3280.nasl
2009-04-06 Name : Fedora Core 9 FEDORA-2009-3283 (moodle)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_3283.nasl
2009-02-18 Name : Fedora Core 10 FEDORA-2009-1699 (moodle)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_1699.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for moodle FEDORA-2008-9903
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_9903_moodle_fc10.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for wordpress FEDORA-2008-9257
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_9257_wordpress_fc9.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for wordpress FEDORA-2008-9304
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_9304_wordpress_fc8.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for moodle FEDORA-2008-9502
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_9502_moodle_fc8.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for moodle FEDORA-2008-9508
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_9508_moodle_fc9.nasl
2009-02-13 Name : Fedora Core 9 FEDORA-2009-1641 (moodle)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_1641.nasl
2009-02-13 Name : Fedora Update for moodle FEDORA-2008-11550
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_11550_moodle_fc10.nasl
2009-02-13 Name : Fedora Update for moodle FEDORA-2008-11577
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_11577_moodle_fc9.nasl
2009-01-26 Name : Fedora Core 9 FEDORA-2009-0814 (moodle)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_0814.nasl
2009-01-26 Name : Fedora Core 10 FEDORA-2009-0819 (moodle)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_0819.nasl
2008-12-29 Name : Ubuntu USN-698-2 (nagios3)
File : nvt/ubuntu_698_2.nasl
2008-12-29 Name : Ubuntu USN-699-1 (blender)
File : nvt/ubuntu_699_1.nasl
2008-12-29 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1691-1 (moodle)
File : nvt/deb_1691_1.nasl
2008-11-01 Name : FreeBSD Ports: wordpress, de-wordpress, wordpress-mu
File : nvt/freebsd_wordpress8.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
49261 Snoopy _httpsrequest() Function Arbitrary Shell Command Injection

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2017-04-12 Nagios Core privilege escalation attempt
RuleID : 41824 - Revision : 2 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2017-04-12 Nagios Core privilege escalation attempt
RuleID : 41823 - Revision : 3 - Type : SERVER-OTHER

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-12-27 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1615.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-01-15 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-d270e932a3.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-10-18 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201710-20.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-10-04 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2017-899.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-06-08 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-3253-2.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-04-04 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-3253-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-02-21 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201702-26.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-02-08 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2017-0259.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-02-08 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2017-0258.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-01-17 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2017-100.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-01-03 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201612-51.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-12-20 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-751.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-12-20 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-751.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-12-01 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-357.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-02-24 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1871.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-06-25 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-791-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-9903.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-12-22 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1691.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-11-09 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-9508.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-11-09 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-9502.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-11-07 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-9304.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-11-07 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-9257.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-10-27 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_3a4a3e9ca1fe11dd81be001c2514716c.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2018-08-03 09:21:10
  • Multiple Updates
2017-03-31 21:22:59
  • Multiple Updates
2017-02-22 13:21:09
  • Multiple Updates
2017-02-21 05:18:58
  • First insertion