Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-42661

High

Published: 07 March 2024

Published
07 March 2024
Modified
11 March 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0128 80.0th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-42661 is a high-severity Improper Input Validation (CWE-20) vulnerability in Jfrog Artifactory. Its CVSS base score is 7.2 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 20.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

JFrog Artifactory prior to version 7.76.2 is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Write of untrusted data, which may lead to DoS or Remote Code Execution when a specially crafted series of requests is sent by an authenticated user. This is due…

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to insufficient validation of artifacts.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

jfrog
artifactory
≤ 7.76.2

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.

addresses: CWE-20

Security testing and developer training directly verify and enforce proper input validation, reducing exploitability of injection and malformed-data weaknesses.

addresses: CWE-20

Security testing and evaluation at multiple SDLC stages directly detects missing or flawed input validation, with the required remediation process ensuring fixes are applied.

addresses: CWE-20

Directly implements checks on information inputs to reject invalid data before processing.

addresses: CWE-20

Spam protection mechanisms perform filtering and detection on inbound/outbound messages, directly compensating for missing or weak input validation of unsolicited content.

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