CVE-2023-5784
Published: 26 October 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-5784 is a medium-severity SQL Injection (CWE-89) vulnerability in Netentsec Application Security Gateway. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 16.9th 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
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-58067
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability was found in Netentsec NS-ASG Application Security Gateway 6.3 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file /protocol/firewall/uploadfirewall.php. The manipulation of the argument messagecontent leads to sql injection. The exploit has…
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been disclosed to the public and may be used. VDB-243590 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability. NOTE: The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
SQL injection in the web management interface (/protocol/firewall/uploadfirewall.php) of the NS-ASG Application Security Gateway enables exploitation of a public-facing application (T1190) and abuse of a server software component (T1505) to execute arbitrary SQL queries for data discovery, as demonstrated in the POC and noted in advisories.
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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.