The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5527-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Checkmk incorrectly handled authentication. An attacker

    could possibly use this issue to cause a race condition leading to information

    disclosure. (CVE-2017-14955)

    It was discovered that Checkmk incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could use these cross-site     scripting issues to inject arbitrary html or

    javascript code to obtain sensitive information including user information,

    session cookies and valid credentials. (CVE-2017-9781, CVE-2021-36563,

    CVE-2021-40906, CVE-2022-24565)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Checkmk vulnerabilities (USN-5527-1)

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