What is CVE-2017-17832?

CVE-2017-17832 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Serverscheck Monitoring Software, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2017-12-27.

How severe is CVE-2017-17832?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

XSS in Serverscheck Monitoring Software

CVE-2017-17832

ServersCheck Monitoring Software before 14.2.3 is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability as user supplied-data is not validated/sanitized when passed in the settings_SMS_ALERT_TYPE parameter, and JavaScript can be executed on settings-save.html (the Settings - SMS Alerts page).

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.007 (49.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Serverscheck Monitoring_software
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-17832?: CVE-2017-17832 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Serverscheck Monitoring Software, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2017-12-27.
How severe is CVE-2017-17832?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.