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medium 6.5

CVE-2016-7067 json

Monit before version 5.20.0 is vulnerable to a cross site request forgery attack.

published 2018-09-10 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-7947

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 59%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • mmonit monit 5.20.0
  • monit Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1:5.20.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-7067

  • monit Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1:5.6-2ubuntu0.1
  • monit Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1:5.16-2ubuntu0.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7067

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • monit openSUSE Tumbleweed 5.20.0-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10275-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-7067 updated cvss 6.5

monit: CSRF in Monit Service Manager

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.88% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 59% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • bitbucket.org https://bitbucket.org/tildeslash/monit/commits/c6ec3820e627f85417053e6336de2987f2d863e3?at=master referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

  • Tildeslash Ltd. monit

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.