USN-6571-1: Monit vulnerability

9 January 2024

Monit could be made to bypass authentication checks for disabled accounts.

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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.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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