National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-2179
Original release date:06/14/2011
Last revised:11/22/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in config.c in config.cgi in (1) Nagios 3.2.3 and (2) Icinga before 1.4.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the expand parameter, as demonstrated by an (a) command action or a (b) hosts action.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://dev.icinga.org/issues/1605
Type: Advisory; Patch Information; Exploit
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.rul3z.de/advisories/SSCHADV2011-006.txt
Type: Patch Information; Exploit
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.rul3z.de/advisories/SSCHADV2011-005.txt
Type: Patch Information; Exploit
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://tracker.nagios.org/view.php?id=224
Type: Advisory; Patch Information; Exploit
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20110601 Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in Nagios
Type: Patch Information; Exploit
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709871
External Source: XF
Name: icinga-expand-xss(67797)
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-1151-1
External Source: BID
Name: 48087
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20110602 Re: CVE request: XSS in nagios
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20110601 CVE request: XSS in nagios
External Source: SREASON
Name: 8274
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 44974
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20110601 Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in Icinga
Technical Details
- Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79)