Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-3573

HighRCE

Published: 08 August 2023

Published
08 August 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0064 71.0th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-3573 is a high-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Phoenixcontact Wp 6070-Wvps Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 29.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

In PHOENIX CONTACTs WP 6xxx series web panels in versions prior to 4.0.10 a remote attacker with low privileges may use a command injection in a HTTP POST request releated to font configuration operations to gain full access to the…

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device.

CWE(s)
CWE-78

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

phoenixcontact
wp 6070-wvps firmware
≤ 4.0.10
phoenixcontact
wp 6101-wxps firmware
≤ 4.0.10
phoenixcontact
wp 6121-wxps firmware
≤ 4.0.10
phoenixcontact
wp 6156-whps firmware
≤ 4.0.10
phoenixcontact
wp 6185-whps firmware
≤ 4.0.10
phoenixcontact
wp 6215-whps firmware
≤ 4.0.10

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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