Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-53937

HighPublic PoC

Published: 18 December 2025

Published
18 December 2025
Modified
14 January 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v4 8.5 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
EPSS Score 0.0019 8.6th percentile
Risk Priority 17 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-53937 is a high-severity Uncontrolled Search Path Element (CWE-427) vulnerability in Hubstaff Hubstaff. Its CVSS base score is 8.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 8.6th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Hubstaff 1.6.14 contains a DLL search order hijacking vulnerability that allows attackers to replace a missing system32 wow64log.dll with a malicious library. Attackers can generate a custom DLL using Metasploit and place it in the system32 directory to obtain a…

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reverse shell during application startup.

CWE(s)
CWE-427

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

hubstaff
hubstaff
1.6.13, 1.6.14

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References