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Remote Code execution

list John Thurston
Tue, 12 Oct 2021 09:10:13 -0800
Message-Id: <user-7b452dd38977@xymon.invalid>

On 10/12/2021 6:11 AM, Christoph Zechner wrote:
after reading an old thread about remote code execution on here [1], I
wondered if something like this is still possible nowadays with xymon?
Last time I looked, the Xymon client software permitted execution of arbitrary code supplied from the Xymon server. This default behavior could be changed by flipping a switch in the client's configuration (uh huh. Yeah, sure).

I have never considered this to be a "feature".

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