Advisories » Nagios CGI Scripts Unspecified Remote Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Release Date:	20/05/2008	Severity:	Less Critical
SecWatch Advisory:	SWID1021233	Cause:	Input validation error
Solution Status:	Vendor Patch	Impact:	Cross Site Scripting
Exploit Status:	None Available	Access Vector:	From remote

Affected Software:	Nagios 2.x

Original Advisory:	http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=600377
References:	FrSIRT/ADV-2008-1567
CVE:	CVE-2007-5803
Secunia:	SA30283
Bugtraq ID:	BID#29140

Description:

An input validation vulnerability in Nagios has been reported, which can be exploited by remote users to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

User-supplied input passed to unspecified parameters in CGI scripts is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary script code in the security context of an affected website, as a result the code will be able to access any of the target user's cookies, access data recently submitted by the target user via web form to the site, or take actions on the site acting as the target user.

Affected:

Nagios versions prior to 2.12.

Solution:

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 2.12.

Credits:

SUSE Linux team