Cross-site request forgery in monit - CVE-2016-7067
Published: September 10, 2018 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU36711
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-7067
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: mmonit.com
Affected software:
monit
monit
Detailed vulnerability description
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.
How to mitigate CVE-2016-7067
Install update from vendor's website.