CVE-2016-7067

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-09-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Monit before version 5.20.0 is vulnerable to a cross site request forgery attack. Successful exploitation will enable an attacker to disable/enable all monitoring for a particular host or disable/enable monitoring for a specific service.

Affected products

Tildeslash Ltd. monit: before 5.20.0 — fixed in 5.20.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Tildeslash Ltd. monit 5.20.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93953
https://bitbucket.org/tildeslash/monit/commits/c6ec3820e627f85417053e6336de2987f2d863e3?at=master
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-7067
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/267
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93953
https://bitbucket.org/tildeslash/monit/commits/c6ec3820e627f85417053e6336de2987f2d863e3?at=master
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-7067
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/267

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