Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-6848

High

Published: 16 December 2023

Published
16 December 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0097 77.0th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-6848 is a high-severity Command Injection (CWE-77) vulnerability in Kodcloud Kodbox. Its CVSS base score is 7.3 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Command and Scripting Interpreter (T1059); ranked in the top 23.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A vulnerability was found in kalcaddle kodbox up to 1.48. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function check of the file plugins/officeViewer/controller/libreOffice/index.class.php. The manipulation of the argument soffice leads to command injection. The attack…

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can be launched remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. Upgrading to version 1.48.04 is able to address this issue. The identifier of the patch is 63a4d5708d210f119c24afd941d01a943e25334c. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier VDB-248209 was assigned to this vulnerability.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter Execution
Adversaries may abuse command and script interpreters to execute commands, scripts, or binaries.
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.
T1202 Indirect Command Execution Stealth
Adversaries may abuse utilities that allow for command execution to bypass security restrictions that limit the use of command-line interpreters.
Why these techniques?

Command injection in public-facing web app (kodbox) via soffice parameter enables exploitation of public-facing application (T1190), indirect command execution (T1202 as noted in advisory), and abuse of command interpreters (T1059).

Affected Assets

kodcloud
kodbox
≤ 1.48.04

Mitigating Controls

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

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