CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-37698

Improper Certificate Validation

Published: Aug 19, 2021 | Modified: Dec 03, 2021
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

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 servers 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.

Weakness

The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Icinga Icinga 2.5.0 (including) 2.11.10 (excluding)
Icinga Icinga 2.12.0 (including) 2.12.6 (excluding)
Icinga Icinga 2.13.0 (including) 2.13.1 (excluding)
Icinga2 Ubuntu bionic *
Icinga2 Ubuntu hirsute *
Icinga2 Ubuntu impish *
Icinga2 Ubuntu kinetic *
Icinga2 Ubuntu trusty *
Icinga2 Ubuntu upstream *
Icinga2 Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

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