Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-45696

Medium

Published: 10 February 2024

Published
10 February 2024
Modified
03 June 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 4.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0021 43.2th percentile
Risk Priority 8 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-45696 is a medium-severity Use of Cache Containing Sensitive Information (CWE-524) vulnerability in Hcltech Sametime. Its CVSS base score is 4.0 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 43.2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Sametime is impacted by sensitive fields with autocomplete enabled in the Legacy web chat client. By default, this allows user entered data to be stored by the browser.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

hcltech
sametime
11.5 — 12.0.2

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-524

Refreshing cached data or generating it ephemerally and deleting afterward directly mitigates storage of sensitive information in caches.

References