CVE-2016-2056

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Xymon versions 4.1.x through 4.3.x before 4.3.25

Description The issue is related to the lack of input sanitization in the xymond component of the Xymon network monitoring tool. This allows a remote authenticated user to execute arbitrary commands by using shell metacharacters in the adduser name argument in either web/useradm.c or web/chpasswd.c.

Recommendations For Xymon versions 4.1.x through 4.3.x before 4.3.25, update to version 4.3.25 or later to resolve the issue.