CVE-2017-9822 (GCVE-0-2017-9822)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-07-20 12:00 – Updated: 2025-10-21 23:55- Remote Code Execution via untrusted deserialization of Xml data
- CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102213 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
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| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DotNetNuke | DotNetNuke CMS Fixed in 9.1.1 |
Affected:
DotNetNuke CMS Fixed in 9.1.1
|
guessed |
CISA
Known Exploited Vulnerability - GCVE BCP-07 Compliant
Exploited: Yes
Timestamps
Scope
Evidence
Type: Vendor Report
Signal: Successful Exploitation
Confidence: 80%
Source: cisa-kev
Details
| Cwes | CWE-20 |
|---|---|
| Feed | CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog |
| Product | DotNetNuke (DNN) |
| Due Date | 2022-05-03 |
| Date Added | 2021-11-03 |
| Vendorproject | DotNetNuke (DNN) |
| Vulnerabilityname | DotNetNuke (DNN) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability |
| Knownransomwarecampaignuse | Known |
References
Previdian
Known Exploited Vulnerability - GCVE BCP-07 Compliant
Exploited: Yes
Timestamps
Scope
Evidence
Type: Public Report
Signal: Confirmed Compromise
Confidence: 70%
Source: kevintel
Details
| Feed | KEVIntel (kevintel.com) |
|---|---|
| Title | DNN (aka DotNetNuke) before 9.1.1 has Remote Code Execution via a cookie, aka "2017-08 (Critical) Possible remote code execution on DNN sites." |
| Vendor | DotNetNuke |
| Product | DotNetNuke CMS Fixed in 9.1.1 |
| Added Date | 2021-11-03T00:00:00.000Z |
| Cvss Score | 8.8 |
| Epss Score | None |
| Cvss Severity | HIGH |
| Epss Percentile | None |
| Used In Malware | yes |
| Ahead Of Cisa Kev | None |
| Not Yet In Cisa Kev | False |
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Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date | Other |
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.