CVE-2017-9781

Publication date 21 June 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.1 · Medium

Score breakdown

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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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
check-mk 22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
21.10 impish Not in release
21.04 hirsute Not in release
20.10 groovy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
19.10 eoan Ignored end of life
19.04 disco Ignored end of life
18.10 cosmic Ignored end of life
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 1.2.8p16-1ubuntu0.2
17.10 artful Ignored end of life
17.04 zesty Ignored end of life
16.10 yakkety Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 1.2.6p12-1ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm1
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

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Notes

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fix 1.4.0p26: https://github.com/tribe29/checkmk/commit/55b67fe59fdf06d6ceaf0d3ae53f73dd4cdf4161 fix 1.2.8p27: https://github.com/tribe29/checkmk/commit/444b30ccd955467da7a88a5321fc54b042500292

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.1 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Changed
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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