What is CVE-2016-7067?

CVE-2016-7067 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mmonit Monit, classified under Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-09-10.

How severe is CVE-2016-7067?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

CSRF in Mmonit Monit

CVE-2016-7067

Monit before version 5.20.0 is vulnerable to a cross site request forgery attack. Successful exploitation will enable an attacker to disable/enable all monitoring for a particular host or disable/enable monitoring for a specific service.

Vulnerability class: CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

Published 2018-09-10 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.009 (57.5th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 58th percentile — 57.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.009 · newest: 0.009 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Mmonit Monit
Tildeslash Ltd. Monit — versions 5.20.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-352 — Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/93953 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/267 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
bitbucket.org/tildeslash/monit/commits/c6ec3820e627f85417053e6336de2987f2d863e3 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-7067?: CVE-2016-7067 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mmonit Monit, classified under Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-09-10.
How severe is CVE-2016-7067?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.