CVE-2023-5913 - Privilege escalation

Significant

Remediate Within one Month

CVE Information|Basic Analysis|Framework Mapping|Web Framework Mapping|Compliance

CVE Information

Original CVE data

Published: November 8, 2023

Updated: September 4, 2024

Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in opentext Fortify ScanCentral DAST. The vulnerability could be exploited to gain elevated privileges.This issue affects Fortify ScanCentral DAST versions 21.1, 21.2, 21.2.1, 22.1, 22.1.1, 22.2, 23.1.

CWE:

CVSS v2-

CVSS v39.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000023500?language=en_US

Affected Vendors

Microfocus - (1)

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Basic Analysis

Common vulnerability metrics

Vulnerabilty type as detected by PRIOⁿengine

Privilege escalation

CVSS Scores as calculated by PRIOⁿengine

CVSS v27.5

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v38.8

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

MITRE CWE Top 25

Exploits

No exploit code is reported to exist.

Active Exploitation

Vulnerability is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. See the KEV Catalog

Social Network Activity

Threat Actor Activity

No sightings of the vulnerability within threat reports.

Cybersecurity Frameworks

How the vulnerability maps against various cybersecurity frameworks

T1529 - System Shutdown/Reboot

T1499.004 - Endpoint Denial of Service (Application or System Exploitation)

T1203 - Exploitation for Client Execution

T1068 - Exploitation for Privilege Escalation

T1059 - Command and Scripting Interpreter

Compliance Impact

How the submited vulnerability affects compliance

Web Application Security Frameworks

Applicable if the issue likely affects a web application