Vulnerability CVE-2017-9781
Published: 2017-06-21

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.

Type:

CWE-79

 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Check mk project -> Check mk 

 References:
http://git.mathias-kettner.de/git/?p=check_mk.git;a=blob;f=.werks/4757;hb=c248f0b6ff7b15ced9f07a3df8a80fad656ea5b1
https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2017-21
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