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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 Jun 21, 2017

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.

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Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

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Weaknesses (1)

CWE-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

References (2)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Jun 21, 2017
Updated Aug 5, 2024
Reserved Jun 21, 2017
Link CVE-2017-9781
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2017-9781
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2017-9781