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Mageia 7: 2021-0209 Critical: Nagios Remote Access Vulnerability Fix

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Calendar Grey May 12, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
The security update for Nagios version 4.4.5 resolves the vulnerability identified as CVE-2020-13977 that impacts Mageia 7. Learn more about this issue.
Nagios 4.4.5 allows an attacker, who already has administrative access to change the "URL for JSON CGIs" configuration setting, to modify the Alert Histogram and Trends code via cr...

Summary

Nagios 4.4.5 allows an attacker, who already has administrative access to change the "URL for JSON CGIs" configuration setting, to modify the Alert Histogram and Trends code via crafted versions of the archivejson.cgi, objectjson.cgi, and statusjson.cgi files (CVE-2020-13977).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28557

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/JUEIABR4Y6L5J5MZDFWU46ZWXMJO64U3/

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-13977

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical remote access nagios mageia alert modification JSON exploits

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/nagios-4.4.3-2.1.mga7

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Publication date: 12 May 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0209.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-13977

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical remote access nagios mageia alert modification JSON exploits

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