Security advisory

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-5473",
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    "title": "CVE-2017-5473",
    "summary": "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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      "modified": "2026-10-20T13:24:15.517473092Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 387625,
  "published_at": "2017-01-14T07:59:00.183+00:00"
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