CVE-2023-33188
Published: 27 May 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-33188 is a medium-severity Confused Deputy (CWE-441) vulnerability in Omninotes Omni Notes. Its CVSS base score is 6.3 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 44.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-37369
Vulnerability details
Omni-notes is an open source note-taking application for Android. The Omni-notes Android app had an insufficient path validation vulnerability when displaying the details of a note received through an externally-provided intent. The paths of the note's attachments were not properly…
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validated, allowing malicious or compromised applications in the same device to force Omni-notes to copy files from its internal storage to its external storage directory, where they would have become accessible to any component with permission to read the external storage. Updating to the newest version (6.2.7) of Omni-notes Android fixes this vulnerability.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
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.
Mitigates confused deputy risks by ensuring distinct privilege domains so one partition cannot unintentionally act on behalf of another.
Limits impact of an externally controlled reference to a primary information resource by switching to an identified alternative.