CVE-2017-5473

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5473
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-5473.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-5473
Downstream
Published
2017-01-14T07:59:00.183Z
Modified
2025-11-20T10:41:19.301302Z
Severity
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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/adduser.lua, admin/changeuserprefs.lua, admin/deleteuser.lua, and admin/password_reset.lua.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/ntop/ntopng

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/ntop/ntopng
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
1b2ceac8f578a246af6351c4f476e3102cdf21b3
Fixed
f91fbe3d94c8346884271838ae3406ae633f6f15

Affected versions

2.*

2.4

Database specific

vanir_signatures

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            "function_hash": "71848155384282004662442714532844800224"
        },
        "id": "CVE-2017-5473-b0719f94",
        "source": "https://github.com/ntop/ntopng/commit/f91fbe3d94c8346884271838ae3406ae633f6f15",
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "target": {
            "file": "src/Lua.cpp",
            "function": "Lua::handle_script_request"
        },
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "deprecated": false
    },
    {
        "digest": {
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            ]
        },
        "id": "CVE-2017-5473-c86f0333",
        "source": "https://github.com/ntop/ntopng/commit/f91fbe3d94c8346884271838ae3406ae633f6f15",
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "target": {
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        },
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    }
]

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-5473.json"