CVE-2016-9565

2016-12-1610:17:33

redhat.com

access.redhat.com

9.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

7.5 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

JSON

It was found that an attacker who could control the content of an RSS feed could execute code remotely using the Nagios web interface. This flaw could be used to gain access to the remote system and in some scenarios control over the system.

Mitigation

#!/bin/bash

mv /usr/share/nagios/html/includes/rss /usr/share/nagios/html/includes/rss.disarmed
mv /usr/share/nagios/html/rss-corefeed.php /usr/share/nagios/html/rss-corefeed.php.disarmed
mv /usr/share/nagios/html/rss-newsfeed.php /usr/share/nagios/html/rss-newsfeed.php.disarmed

This should disable rss from nagios installation and stop affected php code from being executed. Only downside to this would be news widget wont fetch any data from nagios.org rss feeds.