CVE-2019-11454
mediumpriority · track · 25EPSS 0.024 · 84 %ileEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
Persistent cross-site scripting (XSS) in http/cervlet.c in Tildeslash Monit before 5.25.3 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to introduce arbitrary JavaScript via manipulation of an unsanitized user field of the Authorization header for HTTP Basic Authentication, which is mishandled during an _viewlog operation.
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
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affected products (14)
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references (31)
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- http://mmonit.com/monit/Patchcnnvd
- https://bitbucket.org/tildeslash/monit/commits/1a8295eab6815072a18019b668fe084945b751f3cnnvd
- https://bitbucket.org/tildeslash/monit/commits/328f60773057641c4b2075fab9820145e95b728ccnnvd
- https://github.com/dzflack/exploits/blob/master/unix/monit_xss.pycnnvd
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00028.htmlcnnvd
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00018.htmlcnnvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HZQDHRSKTEX5MSYXNCGFTUSFGANBARHX/cnnvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/L475QJMFFI2QV5QEHAKKPVX6QX6ECUL6/cnnvd
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