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CVE-2017-9979

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-08-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

On the OSNEXUS QuantaStor v4 virtual appliance before 4.3.1, if the REST call invoked does not exist, an error will be triggered containing the invalid method previously invoked. The response sent to the user isn't sanitized in this case. An attacker can leverage this issue by including arbitrary HTML or JavaScript code as a parameter, aka XSS.

Affected products

• OSNEXUS QuantaStor: through 4.3.0

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/143780/OSNEXUS-QuantaStor-4-Information-Disclosure.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Aug/23
• http://www.vvvsecurity.com/advisories/vvvsecurity-advisory-2017-6943.txt
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42517/
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/143780/OSNEXUS-QuantaStor-4-Information-Disclosure.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Aug/23
• http://www.vvvsecurity.com/advisories/vvvsecurity-advisory-2017-6943.txt
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42517/

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