CVE-2016-7067: mmonit monit Cross-Site Request Forgery
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2016-7067 is a medium (CVSS 6.5) Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerability in mmonit monit. EPSS estimates a 0.88% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 59.2% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.
Not severe (CVSS 6.5, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 1 · Related 1Timeline
- 10-09-2018PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 06-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
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.
CVSS metrics
5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions- NVDNIST6.5MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated6.5MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated6.5MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS trend
Probability
0.88%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
59%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 0.88% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.
Not in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
1 foundExploit Reference (bitbucket.org)
Maturity: unknown
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Debian1 product
- monit< 1:5.20.0-1 | < 1:5.4-2+deb7u1
Mageia1 product
- monit< 5.20.0-1.mga5
Mmonit1 product
- monit< 5.20.0
Tildeslash ltd.1 product
- monit5.20.0
Ubuntu1 product
- monit< 1:5.6-2ubuntu0.1 | < 1:5.16-2ubuntu0.1
5 vendors · 5 products
References
10 links- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-7067X Refsource CONFIRMIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- bitbucket.org/tildeslash/monit/commits/c6ec3820e627f85417053e6336de2987f2d863e3?at=masterX Refsource CONFIRMExploitThird Party AdvisoryREPORT