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icinga2 — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2021-37698

Icinga is a monitoring system which checks the availability of network resources, notifies users of outages, and generates performance data for reporting. In versions 2.5.0 through 2.13.0, ElasticsearchWriter, GelfWriter, InfluxdbWriter and Influxdb2Writer do not verify the server's certificate despite a certificate authority being specified. Icinga 2 instances which connect to any of the mentioned time series databases (TSDBs) using TLS over a spoofable infrastructure should immediately upgrade to version 2.13.1, 2.12.6, or 2.11.11 to patch the issue. Such instances should also change the credentials (if any) used by the TSDB writer feature to authenticate against the TSDB. There are no workarounds aside from upgrading.

Products
icinga2
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
2.13.1-1
CVEs
CVE-2021-37698
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 00:37 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-37698

core-osv · Original source

Published 19 Aug 2021, 16:15 UTC

Icinga is a monitoring system which checks the availability of network resources, notifies users of outages, and generates performance data for reporting. In versions 2.5.0 through 2.13.0, ElasticsearchWriter, GelfWriter, InfluxdbWriter and Influxdb2Writer do not verify the server's certificate despite a certificate authority being specified. Icinga 2 instances which connect to any of the mentioned time series databases (TSDBs) using TLS over a spoofable infrastructure should immediately upgrade to version 2.13.1, 2.12.6, or 2.11.11 to patch the issue. Such instances should also change the credentials (if any) used by the TSDB writer feature to authenticate against the TSDB. There are no workarounds aside from upgrading.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2021-37698

icinga2

Fixed versions: 2.13.1-1

icinga2

Fixed versions: 2.13.1-1

icinga2

Fixed versions: 2.13.1-1

Complete source record
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      "modified": "2026-10-23T18:03:30.385008320Z",
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