UBUNTU-CVE-2017-11507

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-11507

    Published: 11 Dec 2017Last Modified: 24 Oct 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-11507

    Summary:

    Details: A cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in Check_MK versions 1.2.8x prior to 1.2.8p25 and 1.4.0x prior to 1.4.0p9, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to inject arbitrary HTML or JavaScript via the output_format parameter, and the username parameter of failed HTTP basic authentication attempts, which is returned unencoded in an internal server error page.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-11507, http://mathias-kettner.com/check_mk_werks.php?werk_id=7661, https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2017-20, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-11507

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: check-mk

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.2.6p5-1
    1.2.6p12-1
    1.2.6p12-1ubuntu0.16.04.1
    1.2.6p12-1ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High