CVE-2017-17055

critical

Published 2017-12-07 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

9.0

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

10.0

Description

Artica Web Proxy before 3.06.112911 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code as root by conducting a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack involving the username-form-id parameter to freeradius.users.php.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

93%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-43206 webapps php

hyp3rlinx · 2017-12-01

Artica Web Proxy 3.06 - Remote Code Execution

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
articatech	artica_proxy	`{"endExcluding":"3.06.112911"}`	`3.06.112911`

References

CWEs

CWE-78

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.