Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-42229

Medium

Published: 13 January 2025

Published
13 January 2025
Modified
17 April 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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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 0.0077 74.0th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-42229 is a medium-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Zucchetti Helpdeskadvanced. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 26.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Pat Infinite Solutions HelpdeskAdvanced <= 11.0.33 is vulnerable to Directory Traversal. Arbitrary files can be created on the system via authenticated SOAP requests to the WSConnector service.

CWE(s)
CWE-22

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

zucchetti
helpdeskadvanced
≤ 11.0.33

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.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-22

Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.

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