2021-37698 | Icinga Certificate Authority certificate validation

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A vulnerability was found in Icinga up to 2.11.10/2.12.5/2.13.0. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Certificate Authority Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a weak authentication vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-295. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Icinga is a monitoring system which checks the availability of network resources, notifies users of outages, and generates performance data for reporting. In versions 2.5.0 through 2.13.0, ElasticsearchWriter, GelfWriter, InfluxdbWriter and Influxdb2Writer do not verify the server’s certificate despite a certificate authority being specified. Icinga 2 instances which connect to any of the mentioned time series databases (TSDBs) using TLS over a spoofable infrastructure should immediately upgrade to version 2.13.1, 2.12.6, or 2.11.11 to patch the issue. Such instances should also change the credentials (if any) used by the TSDB writer feature to authenticate against the TSDB. There are no workarounds aside from upgrading.

The weakness was disclosed 08/19/2021. It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2021-37698 since 07/29/2021. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1587.003 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 2.11.11, 2.12.6 or 2.13.1 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.1

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.1
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Class: Weak authentication
CWE: CWE-295
ATT&CK: T1587.003

Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Upgrade: Icinga 2.11.11/2.12.6/2.13.1

07/29/2021 CVE assigned
08/19/2021 +21 days Advisory disclosed
08/19/2021 +0 days VulDB entry created
08/21/2021 +2 days VulDB last updateAdvisory: github.com
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2021-37698 (🔒)

Created: 08/19/2021 21:35
Updated: 08/21/2021 18:11
Changes: (1) source_cve_cna
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