Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-6940

HighRCE

Published: 19 December 2023

Published
19 December 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0015 35.5th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-6940 is a high-severity Command Injection (CWE-77) vulnerability in Lfprojects Mlflow. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Client Execution (T1203); ranked at the 35.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

This vulnerability is AI-related — categorised as Other Platforms; in the Supply Chain and Deployment risk domain.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

with only one user interaction(download a malicious config), attackers can gain full command execution on the victim system.

CWE(s)
CWE-77

AI Security AnalysisAI

AI Category
Other Platforms
Risk Domain
Supply Chain and Deployment
OWASP Top 10 for LLMs 2025
None mapped
Classification Reason
Reported on Huntr, a bug bounty platform specifically for AI/ML vulnerabilities, indicating AI-related software affected, though specific software not named in provided text; vulnerability involves malicious config leading to RCE, common in AI/ML tools with config loaders.

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution Execution
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in client applications to execute code.
attack.mitre.org →
Why these techniques?

The vulnerability allows attackers to gain full command execution on the victim system with one user interaction (downloading a malicious config file), enabling Exploitation for Client Execution.

Affected Assets

lfprojects
mlflow
≤ 2.9.2

Mitigating Controls

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

References