CVE-2017-9781
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
21/06/2017
Last modified:
20/04/2025
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.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
6.10
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Base Score 2.0
4.30
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM
Vulnerable products and versions
| CPE | From | Up to |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:check_mk_project:check_mk:1.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:a:check_mk_project:check_mk:1.4.0:p1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:a:check_mk_project:check_mk:1.4.0:p2:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:a:check_mk_project:check_mk:1.4.0:p3:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:a:check_mk_project:check_mk:1.4.0:p4:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:a:check_mk_project:check_mk:1.4.0:p5:*:*:*:*:*:* |
To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- http://git.mathias-kettner.de/git/?p=check_mk.git%3Ba%3Dblob%3Bf%3D.werks/4757%3Bhb%3Dc248f0b6ff7b15ced9f07a3df8a80fad656ea5b1
- https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2017-21
- http://git.mathias-kettner.de/git/?p=check_mk.git%3Ba%3Dblob%3Bf%3D.werks/4757%3Bhb%3Dc248f0b6ff7b15ced9f07a3df8a80fad656ea5b1
- https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2017-21



