Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-38318

CriticalPublic PoCRCE

Published: 26 January 2024

Published
26 January 2024
Modified
20 June 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0024 47.6th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-38318 is a critical-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Opennds Opennds. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked at the 47.6th 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 issue was discovered in OpenNDS before 10.1.3. It fails to sanitize the gateway FQDN entry in the configuration file, allowing attackers that have direct or indirect access to this file to execute arbitrary OS commands.

CWE(s)
CWE-78

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

opennds
opennds
≤ 10.1.3

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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