CVE-2023-5948
Published: 03 November 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-5948 is a medium-severity Improper Authorization (CWE-285) vulnerability in Teamamaze Amaze File Utilities. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 12.2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
This vulnerability is AI-related — categorised as Data Processing Libraries; in the Other ATLAS/OWASP Terms risk domain.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-58220
Vulnerability details
Improper Authorization in GitHub repository teamamaze/amazefileutilities prior to 1.91.
- CWE(s)
AI Security AnalysisAI
- AI Category
- Data Processing Libraries
- Risk Domain
- Other ATLAS/OWASP Terms
- OWASP Top 10 for LLMs 2025
- None mapped
- Classification Reason
- The vulnerability is in 'amazefileutilities', a file utility repository listed on Huntr's AI/ML bug bounty platform, suggesting relevance to data handling in AI/ML workflows, fitting Data Processing Libraries.
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Improper authorization vulnerability enables exploitation for privilege escalation by allowing unauthorized access to restricted functions or resources.
Affected Assets
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.
Documented procedures facilitate correct implementation and ongoing management of authorization decisions.
Periodic reviews identify and correct flaws in authorization decisions or enforcement.
The control's documentation requirement reduces improper authorization by ensuring only mission-justified actions bypass authentication.
Establishing permitted attributes and values, plus auditing changes, ensures authorization decisions are based on correctly managed policy data.
Explicitly mandates authorizing remote access types before permitting connections, directly mitigating improper authorization.
The control explicitly requires authorization of each wireless access type prior to permitting connections.
Mandating explicit authorization of mobile device connections reduces the risk of improper authorization decisions for system access.
Specifying access authorizations for each account and requiring approvals for account requests enforces proper authorization decisions.