Cross-site request forgery in monit - CVE-2016-7067
Published: September 10, 2018 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU36711
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-7067
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to manipulate data.
Monit before version 5.20.0 is vulnerable to a cross site request forgery attack. Successful exploitation will enable an attacker to disable/enable all monitoring for a particular host or disable/enable monitoring for a specific service.
Affected software
monit
Fedora
monit
Fedora
monit
How to mitigate CVE-2016-7067
Install update from vendor's website.
monit - update to 5.20.0
monit - addressed in versions 5.25.1-1.el6, 5.25.1-1.el7, 5.25.1-1.fc26, 5.25.1-1.fc27
monit - addressed in versions 5.25.1-1.el6, 5.25.1-1.el7, 5.25.1-1.fc26, 5.25.1-1.fc27