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icinga2 — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2021-32739

Icinga is a monitoring system which checks the availability of network resources, notifies users of outages, and generates performance data for reporting. From version 2.4.0 through version 2.12.4, a vulnerability exists that may allow privilege escalation for authenticated API users. With a read-ony user's credentials, an attacker can view most attributes of all config objects including `ticket_salt` of `ApiListener`. This salt is enough to compute a ticket for every possible common name (CN). A ticket, the master node's certificate, and a self-signed certificate are enough to successfully request the desired certificate from Icinga. That certificate may in turn be used to steal an endpoint or API user's identity. Versions 2.12.5 and 2.11.10 both contain a fix the vulnerability. As a workaround, one may either specify queryable types explicitly or filter out ApiListener objects.

Products
icinga2
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
2.12.5-1
CVEs
CVE-2021-32739
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 00:23 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-32739

core-osv · Original source

Published 15 Jul 2021, 15:15 UTC

Icinga is a monitoring system which checks the availability of network resources, notifies users of outages, and generates performance data for reporting. From version 2.4.0 through version 2.12.4, a vulnerability exists that may allow privilege escalation for authenticated API users. With a read-ony user's credentials, an attacker can view most attributes of all config objects including `ticket_salt` of `ApiListener`. This salt is enough to compute a ticket for every possible common name (CN). A ticket, the master node's certificate, and a self-signed certificate are enough to successfully request the desired certificate from Icinga. That certificate may in turn be used to steal an endpoint or API user's identity. Versions 2.12.5 and 2.11.10 both contain a fix the vulnerability. As a workaround, one may either specify queryable types explicitly or filter out ApiListener objects.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2021-32739

icinga2

Fixed versions: 2.12.5-1

icinga2

Fixed versions: 2.12.5-1

icinga2

Fixed versions: 2.12.5-1

Complete source record
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