Re: [Nagios-devel] Security issue

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Re: [Nagios-devel] Security issue

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Ton Voon schrieb:
> On 27 Oct 2008, at 08:51, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
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>> The rest of the nagios-devel mailing list, you may want to mark this
>> thread as important, although an announce will be sent once the issues
>> Tim discovered have been fixed.
>
> I notice that there have been patches applied to Nagios for this
> issue, but it is not clear what the security issue is.
>
> Can you explain what the issue is, what the exposure is, and what the
> fix does?
>
> Ton


Hi Ton,

it was a possible Cross Site Request Forgery Attack against the cmd.cgi
which allows an authorized attacker to inject external commands to
nagios. In worst case the attacker might execute any shell code.

I don't want go deeper into this on public readable ressources. I've
tested the possible attack and it was evil enough for me to update as
soon as possible.

Regards,
Hendrik
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