Stored cross-site scripting in Tildeslash Monit - CVE-2019-11454

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Stored cross-site scripting in Tildeslash Monit - CVE-2019-11454

Published: May 9, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU18412
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-11454
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated attacker to inject arbitrary JavaScript via  user field of the Authorization header for HTTP Basic Authentication and execute it during an "_viewlog" operation.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


Affected software

Tildeslash Monit
monit (Ubuntu package)
monit (Alpine package)
monit
Fedora

How to mitigate CVE-2019-11454

Install update from vendor's website.

Tildeslash Monit - update to 5.25.3
monit (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 1:5.25.2-1ubuntu0.1, 1:5.25.2-3ubuntu0.1
monit (Alpine package) - addressed in versions 5.24.0-r2, 5.25.2-r0
monit - addressed in versions 5.26.0-1.el7, 5.26.0-1.fc31, 5.26.0-1.fc32

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