CVE-2014-5338

Severity: low (CVSS 3.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-08-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the multisite component in Check_MK before 1.2.4p4 and 1.2.5 before 1.2.5i4 allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors to the (1) render_status_icons function in htmllib.py or (2) ajax_action function in actions.py.

Affected products

Tenable Check_MK: 1.2.4, 1.2.4-p1, 1.2.4-p2, 1.2.4-p3, 1.2.5-i1, 1.2.5-i2 (+1)

References

http://mathias-kettner.de/check_mk_werks.php?werk_id=0982&HTML=yes
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/127941/Deutsche-Telekom-CERT-Advisory-DTC-A-20140820-001.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1495.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/533180/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69312
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95383
http://mathias-kettner.de/check_mk_werks.php?werk_id=0982&HTML=yes
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/127941/Deutsche-Telekom-CERT-Advisory-DTC-A-20140820-001.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1495.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/533180/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69312
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95383

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