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Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 12:03:43 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>,
        "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>,
        Henri Wahl <henriwww@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- Nagstamon (prior 0.9.10): Monitor
 server user credentials exposure in automated requests to get update information

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On 07/11/2013 11:07 AM, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
> Hello Kurt, Steve, vendors,
> 
> an user details information exposure flaw was found in the way
> Nagstamon, Nagios status monitor for desktop, performed automated
> requests to get information about available updates. Remote
> attacker could use this flaw to obtain user credentials for server
> monitored by the desktop status monitor due to their improper
> (base64 encoding based) encoding in the HTTP request, when the HTTP
> Basic authentication scheme was used.
> 
> References: [1] http://nagstamon.ifw-dresden.de/docs/security/ [2]
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476538 [3]
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=983673
> 
> Can you allocate a CVE id for this?
> 
> Thank you && Regards, Jan. -- Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat
> Security Response Team
> 

Please use CVE-2013-4114 for this issue.

- -- 
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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