UBUNTU-CVE-2019-11454

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2019-11454

    Published: 22 Apr 2019Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2019-11454

    Summary:

    Details: Persistent cross-site scripting (XSS) in http/cervlet.c in Tildeslash Monit before 5.25.3 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to introduce arbitrary JavaScript via manipulation of an unsanitized user field of the Authorization header for HTTP Basic Authentication, which is mishandled during an _viewlog operation.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-11454, https://bitbucket.org/tildeslash/monit/commits/1a8295eab6815072a18019b668fe084945b751f3, https://bitbucket.org/tildeslash/monit/commits/328f60773057641c4b2075fab9820145e95b728c, https://github.com/dzflack/exploits/blob/master/unix/monit_xss.py, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3971-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4860-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-11454

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: monit

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/monit@1:5.6-2ubuntu0.1+esm2?arch=source&distro=trusty/esm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1:5.6-2ubuntu0.1+esm2

    Affected versions

    1:5.5.1-1

    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