High severity · published Jul 15, 2021
CVE-2021-32739
Icinga is a monitoring system which checks the availability of network resources, notifies users of outages, and generates performance data for reporting
8.8
CVSS
1.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Icinga is a monitoring system which checks the availability of network resources, notifies users of outages, and generates performance data for reporting. From version 2.4.0 through version 2.12.4, a vulnerability exists that may allow privilege escalation for authenticated API users. With a read-ony user's credentials, an attacker can view most attributes of all config objects including `ticket_salt` of `ApiListener`. This salt is enough to compute a ticket for every possible common name (CN). A ticket, the master node's certificate, and a self-signed certificate are enough to successfully request the desired certificate from Icinga. That certificate may in turn be used to steal an endpoint or API user's identity. Versions 2.12.5 and 2.11.10 both contain a fix the vulnerability. As a workaround, one may either specify queryable types explicitly or filter out ApiListener objects.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.1% · higher than 66% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0 · source: NVD
IC
Icinga · Icinga
2.4.0 before 2.11.10; 2.12.0 before 2.12.5 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-32739
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-32739
Exploit
https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2/security/advisories/GHSA-98wp-jc6q-x5q5
Broken Link
https://icinga.com/blog/2021/07/02/releasing-icinga-2-12-5-2-11-10/
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00010.html
lists.debian.org
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/11/msg00010.html
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