CVE-2023-29507 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

XWiki Commons are technical libraries common to several other top level XWiki projects. The Document script API returns directly a DocumentAuthors allowing to set any authors to the document, which in consequence can allow subsequent executions of scripts since this author is used for checking rights. The problem has been patched in XWiki 14.10 and 14.4.7 by returning a safe script API.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Xwiki	Xwiki

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:xwiki:xwiki::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:xwiki:xwiki:14.10:rc1::::::

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References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/905cdd7c421dbf8c565557cdc773ab1aa9028f83
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-pwfv-3cvg-9m4c
https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-20380

History

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2023-04-16T06:52:19.020Z

Updated: 2025-02-06T16:59:43.751Z

Reserved: 2023-04-07T18:56:54.626Z

Link: CVE-2023-29507

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T14:07:46.323Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-04-16T07:15:53.187

Modified: 2025-02-06T17:15:16.757

Link: CVE-2023-29507

Redhat

No data.

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