Bug 1312931 (CVE-2015-8368)

Summary:	CVE-2015-8368 ntop: Privilege escalation via intercepting password change request
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	huzaifas, s, sven
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-02-29 14:49:48 UTC

It was found that ntop before 2.2 allows malicious non-privileged user to escalate his privileges to admim via intercepting password change request and manipulating with user cookie.

Reproducer:

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38836/

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/ntop/ntopng/commit/2e0620be3410f5e22c9aa47e261bc5a12be692c6

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-02-29 14:50:56 UTC

Created ntop tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1312932]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1312933]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:49:09 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.