Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting check-mk package, versions <1.2.6p12-1ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm1
Threat Intelligence
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- published21 Jun 2017
- disclosed21 Jun 2017
Introduced: 21 Jun 2017
CVE-2017-9781 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04 check-mk to version 1.2.6p12-1ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream check-mk package and not the check-mk package as distributed by Ubuntu.
See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.04 relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-9781
- http://git.mathias-kettner.de/git/?p=check_mk.git;a=blob;f=.werks/4757;hb=c248f0b6ff7b15ced9f07a3df8a80fad656ea5b1
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9781
- https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2017-21
- http://git.mathias-kettner.de/git/?p=check_mk.git%3Ba=blob%3Bf=.werks/4757%3Bhb=c248f0b6ff7b15ced9f07a3df8a80fad656ea5b1