CVE Catalog

CVE-2023-4727

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.66%

47th percentile - higher than 47% of all known CVEs

Summary

A flaw was found in dogtag-pki and pki-core where token authentication can be bypassed via LDAP injection. An attacker can use the sessionID=* query parameter to authenticate with an existing session stored in the LDAP directory, potentially leading to privilege escalation.

Risk Assessment

The risk involves unauthorized access to the system with elevated privileges, potentially allowing an attacker to compromise sensitive data or functions.

Recommendation

It is recommended to immediately update dogtag-pki and pki-core to a patched version that fixes the LDAP injection vulnerability and to implement input validation.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

A flaw was found in dogtag-pki and pki-core. The token authentication scheme can be bypassed with a LDAP injection. By passing the query string parameter sessionID=*, an attacker can authenticate with an existing session saved in the LDAP directory server, which may lead to escalation of privilege.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS