Security context

What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.

ntop/ntopng

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137

Fixes

CVEs

CRITICAL

Peak severity

51.5%

Coverage

Highlights

Auth Bypass: 30 prior fixes. Scrutinize any change in this area.

src/Flow.cpp: most-fixed (13 issues). Treat as high-risk during review.

92 high-severity fixes in this history; regressions here are high-impact.

Recurring patterns

The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.

Auth Bypass/Authorization Bypass: Multiple independent fixes added missing isAdministrator()/haveAdminPrivileges() checks and admin-only restrictions to REST endpoints and user admin operations, indicating a systemic failure to enforce authorization by default.

Buffer Overflow / Heap Overflow / Memory Corruption: Numerous packet dissectors lacked bounds checks before reading/copying attacker-controlled payload data, leading to heap/stack overflows and out-of-bounds reads from crafted network packets.

CSRF / CSRF Protection Bypass: CSRF protection was missing on many state-changing endpoints, especially JSON POST REST APIs, and even when present could be bypassed via unbound tokens or missing session checks.