SB2020102135 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Nagios XI

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.

1) Cross-site request forgery (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-5790)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site request forgery attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of the HTTP request origin. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page and perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website.

2) OS Command Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-5791)

The vulnerability allows a remote user to execute arbitrary shell commands on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation. A remote privileged user can pass specially crafted data to the application and execute arbitrary OS commands on the target system with privileges of the web server.

3) OS Command Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-5792)

The vulnerability allows a remote user to execute arbitrary shell commands on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation. A remote privileged user can pass specially crafted data to the application and execute arbitrary OS commands on the target system with privileges of the web server.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2020-58
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/159743/Nagios-XI-5.7.3-Remote-Command-Injection.html