CVE-2019-11454
MEDIUMMonit < 5.25.3 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Authorization Header
Title source: llmDescription
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 (8)
Core 8
Core References
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bitbucket.org/tildeslash/monit/commits/328f60773057641c4b2075fab9820145e95b728c
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bitbucket.org/tildeslash/monit/commits/1a8295eab6815072a18019b668fe084945b751f3
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/dzflack/exploits/blob/master/unix/monit_xss.py
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00028.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3971-1/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/L475QJMFFI2QV5QEHAKKPVX6QX6ECUL6/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HZQDHRSKTEX5MSYXNCGFTUSFGANBARHX/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00018.html
Scores
CVSS v3
6.1
EPSS
0.0112
EPSS Percentile
78.5%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Details
CWE
CWE-79
Status
published
Products (7)
canonical/ubuntu_linux
18.10
canonical/ubuntu_linux
19.04
debian/debian_linux
8.0
debian/debian_linux
9.0
fedoraproject/fedora
31
fedoraproject/fedora
32
mmonit/monit
< 5.25.3
Published
Apr 22, 2019
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026