CVE-2014-6607

high

Published 2014-10-06 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.5

Description

M/Monit 3.3.2 and earlier does not verify the original password before changing passwords, which allows remote attackers to change the password of other users and gain privileges via the fullname and password parameters, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-6409.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-34718 webapps php

Dolev Farhi · 2014-09-20

M/Monit 3.3.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
mmonit	m\/monit	`{"endIncluding":"3.3.2"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-255

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.