CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-9781
6.1 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-06-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
A cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in Check_MK versions 1.4.0x prior to 1.4.0p6, allowing an unauthenticated remote attacker to inject arbitrary HTML or JavaScript via the _username parameter when attempting authentication to webapi.py, which is returned unencoded with content type text/html.
Affected configurations
• check mk project check mk 1.4.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- http://git.mathias-kettner.de/git/?p=check_mk.git%3Ba=blob%3Bf=.werks/4757%3Bhb=c248f0b6ff7b15ced9f07a3df8a80fad656ea5b1 git.mathias-kettner.de
- https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2017-21 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.mathias-kettner.de/git/?p=check_mk.git%3Ba=blob%3Bf=.werks/4757%3Bhb=c248f0b6ff7b15ced9f07a3df8a80fad656ea5b1 git.mathias-kettner.de
- https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2017-21 Exploit, Third Party Advisory