CVE-2023-6002
Published: 08 November 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-6002 is a medium-severity Improper Output Neutralization for Logs (CWE-117) vulnerability in Yugabyte Yugabytedb. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 36.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-58269
Vulnerability details
YugabyteDB is vulnerable to cross site scripting (XSS) via log injection. Writing invalidated user input to log files can allow an unprivileged attacker to forge log entries or inject malicious content into the logs.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
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.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.
Policy and procedures require sanitization and neutralization when generating audit logs to avoid injection issues.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.