Nagios on Fedora Administrator Account Password hard-coded credentials

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Nagios on Fedora. It has been declared as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component Administrator Account. Executing a manipulation of the argument Password with the input nagiosadmin can lead to hard-coded credentials. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2016-0726. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available. Modifying the configuration settings is advised.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Nagios on Fedora (Log Management Software) (version now known) and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing of the component Administrator Account. The manipulation of the argument password with the input value nagiosadmin leads to a hard-coded credentials vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-798. The product contains hard-coded credentials, such as a password or cryptographic key, which it uses for its own inbound authentication, outbound communication to external components, or encryption of internal data. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The Fedora Nagios package uses "nagiosadmin" as the default password for the "nagiosadmin" administrator account, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain access by leveraging knowledge of the credentials.

The bug was discovered 04/09/2016. The weakness was published 06/06/2017 as Bug 1295446 as confirmed bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is available at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2016-0726 since 12/16/2015. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1110.001 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 423 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 118249 (openSUSE Security Update : icinga (openSUSE-2018-1206)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family SuSE Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 171834 (OpenSUSE Security Update for icinga (openSUSE-SU-2018:3258-1)).

It is possible to mitigate the problem by applying the configuration setting . A possible mitigation has been published 2 years after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (118249) and SecurityFocus (BID 97145†). Similar entry is available at VDB-98939. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Hard-coded credentials
CWE: CWE-798 / CWE-259 / CWE-255
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Nessus ID: 118249
Nessus Name: openSUSE Security Update : icinga (openSUSE-2018-1206)
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12/16/2015 🔍
04/09/2016 +115 days 🔍
03/28/2017 +353 days 🔍
06/06/2017 +70 days 🔍
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10/19/2018 +499 days 🔍
10/22/2018 +3 days 🔍
12/26/2020 +796 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: Bug 1295446
Researcher: ricardo
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2016-0726 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2016-0726
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-102010
SecurityFocus: 97145 - Icinga CVE-2015-8010 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

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Entryinfo

Created: 06/07/2017 08:33
Updated: 12/26/2020 10:02
Changes: 06/07/2017 08:33 (71), 10/14/2019 08:10 (12), 12/26/2020 10:02 (2)
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Cache ID: 216:9EC:103

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