CISA adds two Zabbix flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

US CISA added two flaws impacting Zabbix infrastructure monitoring tool to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog.

US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added two new vulnerabilities impacting the Zabbix infrastructure monitoring tool to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog.

Threat actors are actively exploiting the two vulnerabilities that are reported in the following table:

CVE ID	Vulnerability Name	Due Date
CVE-2022-23131	Zabbix Frontend Authentication Bypass Vulnerability	3/8/2022
CVE-2022-23134	Zabbix Frontend Improper Access Control Vulnerability	3/8/2022

According to Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01: Reducing the Significant Risk of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities, FCEB agencies have to address the identified vulnerabilities by the due date to protect their networks against attacks exploiting the flaws in the catalog.

Experts recommend also private organizations review the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and address the vulnerabilities in their infrastructure.

CISA orders all Federal Civilian Executive Branch Agencies (FCEB) agencies to address both security vulnerabilities in Zabbix by March 2022-03-08.

The first issue, tracked as CVE-2022-23131 (CVSS score: 9.8), is an unsafe client-side session storage that could be exploited to achieve authentication bypass/instance takeover via Zabbix Frontend with configured SAML.

The second flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-23134 (CVSS score: 5.3), could be exploited by threat actors to pass step checks and potentially change the configuration of Zabbix Frontend.

The two flaws affect Zabbix Web Frontend versions up to and including 5.4.8, 5.0.18 and 4.0.36, both issues have been reported by SonarSource researcher Thomas Chauchefoin.

“We discovered a high-severity vulnerability in Zabbix’s implementation of client-side sessions that could lead to the compromise of complete networks.” wrote Chauchefoin.

The issues have since been addressed with the release of versions 5.4.9, 5.0.9 and 4.0.37.

Below is the timeline for both flaws:

Date	Action
2021-11-18	A security advisory is sent to Zabbix maintainers.
2021-11-22	Vendor confirms our findings.
2021-12-14	A first release candidate, 5.4.9rc1, is issued.
2021-12-14	We inform the vendor that the patch can be bypassed.
2021-12-22	A second release candidate, 5.4.9rc2, is released.
2021-12-23	versions 5.4.9, 5.0.9 and 4.0.37 are released.
2021-12-29	A public announcement is made at https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBX-20350.
2022-01-11	6.0.0beta2 is released.

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Pierluigi Paganini

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.