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.
Published: 2017-06-21
Score: 6.1 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-18711 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5527-1 Checkmk vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5527-2 Checkmk vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T17:18:01.918Z

Reserved: 2017-06-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-9781

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-06-21T18:29:00.387

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-9781

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