CVE-2004-1897

published 2004-12-31

CVE-2004-1897: Administration interface in Monit 1.4 through 4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) by sending a Basic Authentication…

Priority P4 25 medium 5 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC L Au N C N I N A P

EXPLOIT

Administration interface in Monit 1.4 through 4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) by sending a Basic Authentication request without a password, which causes Monit to decrement a null pointer and perform an out-of-bounds read.

Affected

5 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	monit	< monit 1:4.2.1-1 (bookworm)	monit 1:4.2.1-1 (bookworm)
tildeslash	monit	>= 0 < 1:4.2.1-1	1:4.2.1-1
tildeslash	monit	>= 0 < 1:4.2.1-1	1:4.2.1-1
tildeslash	monit	>= 0 < 1:4.2.1-1	1:4.2.1-1
tildeslash	monit	>= 0 < 1:4.2.1-1	1:4.2.1-1

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 5.0 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

osv 5.0 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 5.0 MEDIUM

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