Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-4659

Critical

Published: 02 October 2023

Published
02 October 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0024 48.0th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-4659 is a critical-severity CSRF (CWE-352) vulnerability in Free5Gc Free5Gc. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked at the 48.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerability, whose exploitation could allow an attacker to perform different actions on the platform as an administrator, simply by changing the token value to "admin". It is also possible to perform POST, GET and DELETE requests without…

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any token value. Therefore, an unprivileged remote user is able to create, delete and modify users within theapplication.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

free5gc
free5gc
1.1.1

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-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.

References