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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-9781): Checkmk vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-9781): Checkmk vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
06/21/2017
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
03/22/2023

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-check-mk-livestatus
  • ubuntu-upgrade-check-mk-multisite
  • ubuntu-upgrade-check-mk-server

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