Bug 690877 (CVE-2011-1523)

Summary: CVE-2011-1523 Nagios: XSS in the network status map CGI
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: jose.p.oliveira.oss, lemenkov, linux, ocs2, ondrejj, plautrba
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Bug Depends On: 690878, 690879, 690880, 690881    
Bug Blocks: 734555    

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-03-25 16:50:51 UTC
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Nagios allows remote
attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via specially-crafted
'layer' parameter passed to the Nagios network status map CGI script
(statusmap.cgi).

References:
[1] http://tracker.nagios.org/view.php?id=207
[2] http://www.rul3z.de/advisories/SSCHADV2011-002.txt
[3] http://secunia.com/advisories/43287/

Public PoC (from [2):
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http://site/nagios/cgi-bin/statusmap.cgi?layer=' onmouseover="alert('XSS')" '

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-03-25 16:53:37 UTC
This issue affects the version of the nagios package, as shipped
with Red Hat HPC Solution.

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This issue affects the versions of the nagios package, as shipped
with Fedora release of 13 and 14.

This issue affects the versions of the nagios package, as present
within EPEL-4, EPEL-5, and EPEL-6 repositories.

Please schedule an update.

Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-03-25 16:55:14 UTC
Created nagios tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: epel-4 [bug 690878]
Affects: epel-5 [bug 690879]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 690880]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 690881]

Comment 4 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-03-28 14:40:45 UTC
The CVE identifier of CVE-2011-1523 has been assigned to this issue
(http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/28/4).

Comment 5 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-09-07 07:30:18 UTC
Upstream patch:
http://nagios.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nagios?view=revision&revision=1741

Comment 6 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-09-07 10:12:18 UTC
Statement:

This issue affects the Red Hat HPC Solution which is End of Life. For more information please refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/hpc/