Out-of-bounds read in Tildeslash Monit - CVE-2019-11455
Published: May 9, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU18413
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-11455
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Atlassian
Affected software:
Tildeslash Monit
Tildeslash Monit
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition when processing parameters passed via HTTP GET or POST requests within the Util_urlDecode() function in util.c. A remote authenticated attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to the affected application, trigger out-of-bounds read error and read contents of memory.
How to mitigate CVE-2019-11455
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- https://bitbucket.org/tildeslash/monit/commits/f12d0cdb42d4e74dffe1525d4062c815c48ac57a
- https://github.com/dzflack/exploits/blob/master/macos/monit_dos.py
- https://github.com/dzflack/exploits/blob/master/unix/monit_buffer_overread.py
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00028.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3971-1/