Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-26560

Medium

Published: 26 April 2023

Published
26 April 2023
Modified
04 February 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0040 60.8th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-26560 is a medium-severity Observable Discrepancy (CWE-203) vulnerability in Northern.Tech Cfengine. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 39.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Northern.tech CFEngine Enterprise before 3.21.1 allows a subset of authenticated users to leverage the Scheduled Reports feature to read arbitrary files and potentially discover credentials.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

northern.tech
cfengine
3.6.0 — 3.21.1

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.

addresses: CWE-203

Misdirection can normalize or falsify responses to eliminate observable discrepancies that aid reconnaissance.

addresses: CWE-203

Observable discrepancies in system behavior can be modulated to create covert storage or timing channels; the required analysis detects and constrains such avenues.

addresses: CWE-203

Prevents attackers from using observable differences in error responses to infer internal system details or state.

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