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high 8.8

CVE-2017-11567 json

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Mongoose Web Server before 6.9 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of u…

published 2017-09-07 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-3182

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.1%
EPSS 4.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Mongoose Web Server before 6.9 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for requests that modify Mongoose.conf via a request to __mg_admin?save. NOTE: this issue can be leveraged to execute arbitrary code remotely.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-11567 updated cvss 7.5

mongoose: Cross-site request forgery via request to __mg_admin?save

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-42614)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

4.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-42614 Mongoose Web Server 6.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery / Remote Code Execution remote, 2017-09-04
  • hyp3rlinx.altervista.org http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/MONGOOSE-WEB-SERVER-v6.5-CSRF-COMMAND-EXECUTION.txt referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • seclists.org http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Sep/3 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery

References

Sources

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