CVE-2016-7067

Publication date 10 September 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

From the Ubuntu Security Team

It was discovered that the Monit web interface did not protect against cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks. If an authenticated user were tricked into visiting a malicious website while logged into Monit, a remote attacker could perform administrative actions.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
monit	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Not affected
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1:5.16-2ubuntu0.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1:5.6-2ubuntu0.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
monit	Upstream: https://bitbucket.org/tildeslash/monit/commits/c6ec3820e627f85417053e6336de2987f2d863e3?at=master

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.5 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	None
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	None

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N