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CVE-2023-32315

Ignite Realtime Openfire Path Traversal Vulnerability

KEVHIGH 7.5EPSS 100.0%

Does this matter?

Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 14 September 2023). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.

Description

Openfire is an XMPP server licensed under the Open Source Apache License. Openfire's administrative console, a web-based application, was found to be vulnerable to a path traversal attack via the setup environment. This permitted an unauthenticated user to use the unauthenticated Openfire Setup Environment in an already configured Openfire environment to access restricted pages in the Openfire Admin Console reserved for administrative users. This vulnerability affects all versions of Openfire that have been released since April 2015, starting with version 3.10.0. The problem has been patched in Openfire release 4.7.5 and 4.6.8, and further improvements will be included in the yet-to-be released first version on the 4.8 branch (which is expected to be version 4.8.0). Users are advised to upgrade. If an Openfire upgrade isn’t available for a specific release, or isn’t quickly actionable, users may see the linked github advisory (GHSA-gw42-f939-fhvm) for mitigation advice.

CVSS 3.1
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS
100.00% probability · 100th percentile
CISA KEV
Listed 24 August 2023 · due 14 September 2023
Weakness
CWE-22
Affected
igniterealtime/openfire
Source
security-advisories@github.com

CISA notes

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. https://www.igniterealtime.org/downloads/#openfire; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-32315

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.