# CVE-2023-23689: Denial of service in PowerScale OneFS

> An unauthenticated attacker can cause a denial of service by impairing hardware management and triggering data protection mechanisms in Dell PowerScale nodes.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 28 Feb 2023
- **Updated:** 7 Mar 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-8rq7-6h4w-w3xv

## What is CVE-2023-23689?

CVE-2023-23689 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Dell PowerScale OneFS, published on 28 Feb 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Dell PowerScale nodes A200, A2000, H400, H500, H600, H5600, F800, F810 integrated hardware management software contains an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability. This may allow an unauthenticated network host to impair built-in hardware management functionality and trigger OneFS data protection mechanism causing a denial of service.

Weakness: CWE-400 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-23689?

It affects 8 products.


Products: Dell A2000 Firmware, Dell A200 Firmware, Dell F800 Firmware, Dell F810 Firmware, Dell H400 Firmware, Dell H500 Firmware, Dell H5600 Firmware, Dell H600 Firmware.

## How do I fix CVE-2023-23689?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-23689 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2023-23689 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-23689 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-23689 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2023-23689 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Dell PowerScale OneFS, published on 28 Feb 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-23689 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Dell PowerScale OneFS. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-23689/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-23689/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-23689
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-23689
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-23689

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-23689/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.