Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-22643

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 07 February 2023

Published
07 February 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0017 38.3th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-22643 is a medium-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Opensuse Libzypp-Plugin-Appdata. Its CVSS base score is 6.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 38.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') vulnerability in libzypp-plugin-appdata of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15-SP3; openSUSE Leap 15.4 allows attackers that can trick users to use specially crafted REPO_ALIAS, REPO_TYPE…

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or REPO_METADATA_PATH settings to execute code as root. This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15-SP3 libzypp-plugin-appdata versions prior to 1.0.1+git.20180426. openSUSE Leap 15.4 libzypp-plugin-appdata versions prior to 1.0.1+git.20180426.

CWE(s)
CWE-78

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

opensuse
libzypp-plugin-appdata
≤ 1.0.1\+git.20180426

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SC-27 Platform-independent Applications
addresses: CWE-78

Platform-independent apps typically execute inside a managed runtime or sandbox that restricts direct OS command execution, reducing the ability to exploit OS command injection.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-78

Validates inputs to block special elements that would alter OS command execution.

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