M/Monit 3.7.4 - Password Disclosure | Advisories

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M/Monit 3.7.4 - Password Disclosure

severity: high
date: January 28, 2026
Affecting: M/Monit 3.7.4
CVE: CVE-2020-36968
CWE: CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials
CVSS: 7.1
CVSS V4 Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
References: ExploitDB-49081
M/Monit Official Vendor Homepage
Credit: Dolev Farhi
Description: M/Monit 3.7.4 contains an authentication vulnerability that allows authenticated attackers to retrieve user password hashes through an administrative API endpoint. Attackers can send requests to the /api/1/admin/users/list and /api/1/admin/users/get endpoints to extract MD5 password hashes for all users.