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 admin/add_user.lua, admin/change_user_prefs.lua, admin/delete_user.lua, and…
Does this matter?
A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB and the impact is high, while EPSS rates exploitation at 3.5%. Anyone can run this; patch or mitigate before the next change window and check exposed instances for signs of use.
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 3.0
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 3.52% probability · 89th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · first 22 January 2017
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-352
- Affected
- ntop/ntopng
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 3.5% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95654Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/ntop/ntopng/commit/1b2ceac8f578a246af6351c4f476e3102cdf21b3Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ntop/ntopng/commit/f91fbe3d94c8346884271838ae3406ae633f6f15Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41141/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95654Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/ntop/ntopng/commit/1b2ceac8f578a246af6351c4f476e3102cdf21b3Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ntop/ntopng/commit/f91fbe3d94c8346884271838ae3406ae633f6f15Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41141/
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.