Bug 1037941 (CVE-2013-6824)

Summary:	CVE-2013-6824 zabbix: remote command execution from zabbix server
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Ratul Gupta <ratulg>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	brett.lentz, ccoleman, dan, dmcphers, jialiu, lmeyer, nelsonab, tkramer, volker27
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	zabbix 2.0.10, zabbix 1.8.19, zabbix 2.2.1	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2014-01-18 14:33:14 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1037942, 1037943, 1037944, 1082436
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Description Ratul Gupta 2013-12-04 06:10:57 UTC

Zabbix agent is found to be vulnerable to remote command execution from the Zabbix server in some cases.

It is found that if a flexible user parameter is configured in the agent, including a newline in the parameters will execute newline section as a separate command even if UnsafeUserParameters are disabled.

This type of attack is known to be only possible from Zabbix server or Zabbix proxy systems that are explicitly allowed in the agent configuration. Only flexible user parameters are vulnerable, static ones are not.

References:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493250
https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBX-7479

Comment 1 Ratul Gupta 2013-12-04 06:13:56 UTC

Created zabbix tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1037942]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1037943]

Comment 2 Ratul Gupta 2013-12-04 06:14:12 UTC

Created zabbix20 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1037944]