CVE-2023-38509
Xwiki 3.5 – 14.10.9
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NCVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.
Summary
CVE-2023-38509 is a medium-severity Resource Leak (CWE-402) vulnerability in Xwiki Xwiki. Its CVSS base score is 4.3 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 44% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-2060
Vulnerability Data
XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform. In org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-livetable-ui starting with version 3.5-milestone-1 and prior to versions 14.10.9 and 15.3-rc-1, the mail obfuscation configuration was not fully taken into account and is was still possible by obfuscated emails. This has…
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been patched in XWiki 14.10.9 and XWiki 15.3-rc-1. A workaround is to modify the page `XWiki.LiveTableResultsMacros` following the patch.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Information-transfer rules can prevent unintended disclosure of private resources outside the product.
Access-control mechanisms limit who can receive resources that should remain internal.
A.5.18 governs the provisioning, review, and revocation of authorized access rights to already-authenticated identities; it has no bearing on whether a product transmits a private resource into an untrusted sphere during its own operation.
Data-leakage-prevention technologies specifically block unintended transmission of sensitive resources.
A.8.3's core (access restriction per policies, per-user/group rights, isolation, dynamic techniques, authentication, time-bound access, encryption, monitoring, alerts) directly stops untrusted parties from exploiting leaked private resources in most transmission scenarios; the bounded remainder is cases where the leak is not an access-control decision at all (e.g. the resource is deliberately public but still contains unintended private data).
Hardening callouts derived
DISA STIG baselines are authored against specific weaknesses. Where this CVE cites a broad weakness class, the mapping is not asserted at that abstraction (owner ruling, 2026-09-25: grade only at Base and below), so no rule is shown here rather than a rule shown against the wrong grain.
- No fine-grained STIG row for CWE-402, a class-level weakness, and none of its children carries one either.