CVE-2023-42234

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 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS Score 0.0020 41.6th percentile

Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-42234 is a medium-severity CSRF (CWE-352) vulnerability in Zucchetti Helpdeskadvanced. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 41.6th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Pat Infinite Solutions HelpdeskAdvanced <= 11.0.33 is vulnerable to Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) via the WSCView function.

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

zucchetti

helpdeskadvanced

≤ 11.0.33

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.

addresses: CWE-352

Awareness training educates users on avoiding untrusted links and actions that can be exploited via CSRF.

addresses: CWE-352

Requiring user re-entry of credentials for sensitive actions prevents automated forgery of requests without active user participation.

addresses: CWE-352

Security testing regimens explicitly include checks for missing or ineffective anti-CSRF protections in web applications.

addresses: CWE-352

Detects anomalous request patterns consistent with cross-site request forgery.