Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-6617

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 08 December 2023

Published
08 December 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0006 17.7th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-6617 is a medium-severity SQL Injection (CWE-89) vulnerability in Oretnom23 Simple Student Attendance System. 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 17.7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

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Vulnerability details

A vulnerability was found in SourceCodester Simple Student Attendance System 1.0. It has been classified as critical. Affected is an unknown function of the file attendance.php. The manipulation of the argument class_id leads to sql injection. The exploit has been…

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disclosed to the public and may be used. VDB-247254 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability.

CWE(s)
CWE-89

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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T1505 Server Software Component Persistence
Adversaries may abuse legitimate extensible development features of servers to establish persistent access to systems.
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T1213.006 Databases Collection
Adversaries may leverage databases to mine valuable information.
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Why these techniques?

SQL injection in public-facing web application (attendance.php) enables exploitation of public-facing applications (T1190), abuse of server software components for potential code execution (T1505 as mapped by VulDB), and collection of data from databases via arbitrary queries (T1213.006).

Affected Assets

oretnom23
simple student attendance system
1.0

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.

CA-8 Penetration Testing
addresses: CWE-89

Penetration testing uses SQL injection payloads against database interfaces, identifying and supporting fixes for SQL injection weaknesses.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-89

Validates query inputs to prevent SQL syntax or command manipulation.

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