Ntopng
CVE-2017-5473
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V3 - Web Frontend Security Anti-CSRF tokens, SameSite cookies
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Initial Access The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, user interaction required. Public proof-of-concept exploit code is available. EPSS exploitation probability: 0.31%. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker could trick authenticated users into performing unintended actions by sending crafted requests to the affected application. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. |
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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,. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.
RemediationAI
A vendor patch is available. Apply the latest security update as soon as possible. Implement anti-CSRF tokens, validate Origin/Referer headers, use SameSite cookie attribute.
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This vulnerability is classified as Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (CWE-352), which allows attackers to trick authenticated users into performing unintended actions. 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. Affected products include: Ntop Ntopng. Version information: through 2.4.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Primary rating from NVD · only source for this CVE.
CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionCVE.org
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.
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Attack Technique
Cross-Site Request Forgery exploits the automatic credential inclusion behavior of web browsers.
Affected Products (CPE)CVE.org
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the nDPI traffic classification library in ntopng (aka ntop) before 1.2.1 al
An issue was discovered in ntopng 3.4 before 3.4.180617. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.1), this vulnerability is remotely
ntopng (aka ntop) before 2.2 allows remote authenticated users to change the login context and gain privileges via the u
OS command injection in ntopng prior to 6.7.260717 allows an authenticated non-administrator user to run arbitrary opera
Authenticated non-administrator users of ntopng prior to 6.7.260718 can list and download complete system-configuration
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in lua/host_details.lua in ntopng 1.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitra
Any authenticated but non-administrator user on ntopng deployments prior to 6.7.260717 can tamper with threat-intelligen
The NetworkInterface::getHost function in NetworkInterface.cpp in ntopng before 3.0 allows remote attackers to cause a d
ntopng before 3.0 allows HTTP Response Splitting. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploit
Missing authorization on the host pool bulk-delete REST endpoint in ntopng before 6.7.260717 allows any authenticated lo
Missing authorization in ntopng's REST v2 API allows any authenticated low-privilege user to permanently delete all conf
Missing authorization on two REST v2 tag-management endpoints in ntopng 6.7.0-6.7.260717 allows any authenticated low-pr