Nagios Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA27316
Release Date: 2007-10-22
Last Update: 2007-10-26
Popularity: 4,353 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Nagios 2.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-5624


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Nagios, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to unspecified parameters in the CGI scripts is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 2.10.

Solution:
Update to version 2.10.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.

Changelog:
2007-10-26: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://www.nagios.org/development/changelog.php#2x_branch


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