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TITLE:
Nagios "statuswml.cgi" Command Injection Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA35543

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35543/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Nagios, which can be exploited
by malicious users to potentially compromise a vulnerable system.

Input passed to the "ping" parameter in statuswml.cgi is not properly
sanitised before being used to invoke the ping command. This can be
exploited to inject and execute arbitrary shell commands.

Successful exploitation requires access to the ping feature of the
WAP interface.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 3.1.1.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 3.1.1.
http://www.nagios.org/download

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Paul

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.nagios.org/development/history/core-3x/

http://tracker.nagios.org/view.php?id=15

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