Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-45207

Medium

Published: 13 February 2024

Published
13 February 2024
Modified
27 March 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0044 63.7th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-45207 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Zimbra Collaboration. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 36.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An issue was discovered in Zimbra Collaboration (ZCS) 8.8.15, 9.0, and 10.0. An attacker can send a PDF document through mail that contains malicious JavaScript. While previewing this file in webmail in the Chrome browser, the stored XSS payload is…

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executed. (This has been mitigated by sanitising the JavaScript code present in a PDF document.)

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

zimbra
collaboration
8.8.15, 9.0.0 · 10.0.0 — 10.0.5

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-79

Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.

addresses: CWE-79

Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.

addresses: CWE-79

Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.

References