High severity · published Jan 14, 2017
CVE-2017-5473
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in ntopng through 2.4 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users, as demonstrated by…
8.8
CVSS
3.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in ntopng through 2.4 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users, as demonstrated by admin/add_user.lua, admin/change_user_prefs.lua, admin/delete_user.lua, and admin/password_reset.lua.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.5% · higher than 89% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
NT
Ntopng · Ntop
through 2.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5473
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5473
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95654
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/ntop/ntopng/commit/1b2ceac8f578a246af6351c4f476e3102cdf21b3
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/ntop/ntopng/commit/f91fbe3d94c8346884271838ae3406ae633f6f15
www.exploit-db.com
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41141/
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