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Just found an interesting article over at TechRepublic. Toni Bowers, Head Blogs Editor of TechRepublic is reporting about this over at their site. Just read the full post
Today, nagios issued a security notice about CSRF and XSS Exploits regarding their product. You can read the original notice below:
The Nagios Team was notified last week about security exploits in Nagios XI that could potentially compromise a Nagios XI deployment. This message contains information about the exploits, as well as information related to mitigating these problems. We recommend that all Nagios XI users upgrade to the latest release to resolve these issues.
Security Exploit Details
The security vendor that notified us indicated that Nagios XI 2009R1.2B and earlier were vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) and Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) exploits.
In order to help prevent current Nagios XI users from malicious attacks, we will not be releasing the details of exploits. However, the exploits allowed the vendor to craft requests to Nagios XI that ultimately created a PHP-based shell program that ran as the Apache user. This would allow an attacker to run arbitrary commands as the Apache user and potentially expose sensitive information.
What We Are Doing
Upon receiving the notice from the security vendor, we made changes to the Nagios XI code and released a new 2009R1.2C version that we believe fixes the problems that were reported. We have asked the vendor the re-verify the security test using the 2009R1.2C release. If the vendor reports additional problems with the latest release, we will work quickly to solve the problem and notify you of additional fixes and updates.
What Should You Do?
We recommend that Nagios XI users immediately upgrade to the latest 2009R1.2C release of Nagios XI. This release contains changes that we believe resolve the security risks reported to us.
2009R1.2C is a free upgrade for all Nagios XI users – including customers and users currently evaluating Nagios XI.
Instructions on how to upgrade your Nagios XI instance can be found in the following document:
Nagios XI Upgrade Instructions
Additional Assistance
If you encounter problems with the upgrade to 2009R1.2C, please contact our technical support team by posted to our online support forum at:
http://support.nagios.com/forum
If you have any questions about the information provided in this email please contact us.
Phone: 1-888-624-4671
So, let’s get your installation updated.
During a project, we came across the problem to proxy the services of a Citrix Secure Gateway for security purposes. No deal I thought, because of the TCP over HTTP tunneling thing I had back in my mind. We’ve tried proxyiing via Squid, as well as Apache and stunnel to no avail. The problem is in the nature of how the SSL Connection is beiing used, and that it’s not a real HTTP connection at all. With the proxying enabled, the session terminates at the proxy system. The secure gateway itself thinks about this like it is a kind of “man-in-the-middle” attack., and denies the connection with an misleading SSL Error 4.
I can understand, that this kind of protection is useful in many ways, but with the usage of http proxy servers and restricted firewall policies it’s more a problem than a feature. You have to either pinpoint you’re firewall with DNATs and the like, or use a commercial feature like the Citrix Secure Gateway Proxy to get rid of the problem.
The final solution to this was, to use socat a multipurpose Relay. From the about page of socat:
socat is a relay for bidirectional data transfer between two independent data
channels. Each of these data channels may be a file, pipe, device (serial line
etc. or a pseudo terminal), a socket (UNIX, IP4, IP6 - raw, UDP, TCP), an
SSL socket, proxy CONNECT connection, a file descriptor (stdin etc.), the GNU
line editor (readline), a program, or a combination of two of these.
These modes include generation of "listening" sockets, named pipes, and pseudo
terminals.
So, whenever you’re facing a problem like this, were regular reverse proxy solutions won’t work, give socat a try, for me it saved my day.
You can get socat at http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/
For all you Sysadmins using Nagios and Firefox – while browsing the Firefox AddOn Repository I discovered a nice nagios plugin for Firefox. It displays the status from the nagios pages right in your brwoser status bar, and is quiet configurable (filters, etc.) You can find the plugin here
An alle Sysadmins die Nagios verwenden und mit dem Firefox im Netz unterwegs sind – als ich so durchs Firefox AddOn Repo gestöbert habe, bin ich auf ein nettes Nagios Plugin für Firefox gestossen. Es zeigt die Stati der Hosts und Services des Nagios in der Firefox Status Leiste und hat viele Einstellmöglichkeiten, wie Filter, etc. Das Plugin gibts hier.
The Nagios Team was notified last week about security exploits in Nagios XI that could potentially compromise a Nagios XI deployment. This message contains information about the exploits, as well as information related to mitigating these problems. We recommend that all Nagios XI users upgrade to the latest release to resolve these issues.