Bug 1312931 (CVE-2015-8368) - CVE-2015-8368 ntop: Privilege escalation via intercepting password change request
Summary: CVE-2015-8368 ntop: Privilege escalation via intercepting password change req...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2015-8368
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1312932 1312933
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-02-29 14:49 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:45 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:49:09 UTC
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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.
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