Directory Traversal Affecting xymon package, versions [,4.3.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.83% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XYMON-2380534
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 Oct 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Oct 2013

CVE-2013-4173  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade xymon to version 4.3.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal. Directory traversal vulnerability in the trend-data daemon (xymond_rrd) in Xymon 4.x before 4.3.12 allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the host name in a "drophost" command.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1