[Secure-testing-team] Bug#816190: ntopng: CVE-2015-8368

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: ntopng
Version: 2.0+dfsg1-1
Severity: grave
Tags: security upstream patch fixed-upstream

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for ntopng.

CVE-2015-8368[0]:
| ntopng (aka ntop) before 2.2 allows remote authenticated users to
| change the login context and gain privileges via the user cookie and
| username parameter to admin/password_reset.lua.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8368
[1] https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38836/
[2] https://github.com/ntop/ntopng/commit/2e0620be3410f5e22c9aa47e261bc5a12be692c6

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore