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Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 23:22:38 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Vincent Danen <vdanen@...hat.com>, mejo@...ian.org, contribute@...ios.org
Subject: Re: CVE request: unauthorized host/service views displayed
 in servicegroup view

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On 08/02/2013 11:27 AM, Vincent Danen wrote:
> * [2013-07-10 17:17:08 +0200] Jonas Meurer wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Am 2013-07-08 20:16, schrieb Kurt Seifried:
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>>> On 06/26/2013 01:42 PM, Kurt Seifried wrote:
>>>> On 06/26/2013 12:36 PM, Vincent Danen wrote:
>>>>> I don't believe a CVE has been assigned to this issue yet.
>>>> 
>>>>> It was reported that Nagios 3.4.4 at least, and possibly
>>>>> earlier versions, would allow users with access to Nagios
>>>>> to obtain full access to the servicegroup overview, even if
>>>>> they are not authorized to view all of the systems (not
>>>>> configured for this ability in the authorized_for_*
>>>>> configuration option).  This includes the servicegroup
>>>>> overview, summary, and grid.
>>>> 
>>>>> Provided the user has access to view some services, they
>>>>> will be able to see all services (including those they
>>>>> should not see). Note that the user in question must have
>>>>> access to some services and must have access to Nagios to
>>>>> begin with.
>>>> 
>>>>> This has not yet been corrected upstream.
>>>> 
>>>>> References:
>>>> 
>>>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg39749.html
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 
http://tracker.nagios.org/view.php?id=456
>>>>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=714171 
>>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=978531
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>> 
>>>> Please use CVE-2013-2214 for this issue.
>>> 
>>> It appears there are may be some problems with this issue,
>>> potentially this may have been a bad configuration and not a
>>> source code based problem, however we haven't been able to
>>> confirm it yet. I've also not been able to contact upstream
>>> about this easily (no security@ address, if anyone know whom to
>>> forward this to, please let me know, thanks.
>> 
>> I'm wondering why you fail to reproduce this issue. I posted
>> some details regarding my setup at the Nagios Tracker: 
>> http://tracker.nagios.org/view.php?id=456
>> 
>> Unfortunately Nagios upstream sometimes rather unresponsive. At
>> least that's what I observed.
>> 
>> Please let me know if you need any further details regarding the
>> bug or advice on how to reproduce it.
> 
> To close the loop on this, the CVE should probably be rejected. 
> According to upstream, this is done by design.  One of our users
> noted it in our bugzilla:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=978531#c11
> 
> He has a thorough explanation, but the bottom line is this seems to
> be by design, as noted in the changelog:
> 
> http://www.nagios.org/projects/nagioscore/history/core-3x
> 
> * Users can now see hostgroups and servicegroups that contain at
> least one host or service they are authorized for, instead of
> having to be authorized for them all (Ethan Galstad)
> 
> I suspect this CVE should be rejected as this is done by design.
> 

Agreed. Please REJECT CVE-2013-2214

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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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