CVE-2016-7067 Cross-site request forgery in monit
An attacker can trick users into disabling monitoring for hosts or services via CSRF, compromising system availability and oversight.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2016-7067?
CVE-2016-7067 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Tildeslash Ltd. monit, published on 10 Sep 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Monit before version 5.20.0 is vulnerable to a cross site request forgery attack. Successful exploitation will enable an attacker to disable/enable all monitoring for a particular host or disable/enable monitoring for a specific service.
Weakness: CWE-352
Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-7067?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Mmonit Monit.
How do I fix CVE-2016-7067?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Is CVE-2016-7067 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-7067 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-7067, DLA-732-1, GHSA-62rw-754v-xcw2, MGASA-2016-0375, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7067.