USN-6571-1: Monit vulnerability
9 January 2024
Monit could be made to bypass authentication checks for disabled accounts.
Releases
Packages
- monit - utility for monitoring and managing daemons or similar programs
Details
Youssef Rebahi-Gilbert discovered that Monit did not properly process
credentials for disabled accounts. An attacker could possibly use this
issue to login to the platform with an expired account and a valid
password.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 22.04
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monit
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1:5.31.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
Available with Ubuntu Pro
Ubuntu 20.04
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monit
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1:5.26.0-4ubuntu0.1~esm1
Available with Ubuntu Pro
Ubuntu 18.04
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monit
-
1:5.25.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
Available with Ubuntu Pro
Ubuntu 16.04
-
monit
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1:5.16-2ubuntu0.2+esm2
Available with Ubuntu Pro
Ubuntu 14.04
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monit
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1:5.6-2ubuntu0.1+esm3
Available with Ubuntu Pro
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.