MGASA-2013-0262

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    MGASA-2013-0262

    Published: 30 Aug 2013Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2013-4114

    Summary: Updated nagstamon package fixes security vulnerability

    Details: A user details information exposure flaw was found in the way Nagstamon performed automated requests to get information about available updates. Remote attackers could use this flaw to obtain user credentials for servers monitored by the desktop status monitor due to their improper (base64 encoding-based) encoding in the HTTP request, when the HTTP Basic authentication scheme was used (CVE-2013-4114).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2013-0262.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10779, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-July/111698.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: nagstamon

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/nagstamon?arch=source&distro=mageia-3

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.9.9-1.2.mga3

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High