CVE-2023-23840 SolarWinds Platform Exposed Dangerous Method Vulnerability

What is CVE-2023-23840?

CVE-2023-23840 is a medium-severity command injection vulnerability in SolarWinds Platform, published on 13 Sep 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The SolarWinds Platform was susceptible to the Incorrect Comparison Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows users with administrative access to SolarWinds Web Console to execute arbitrary commands with NETWORK SERVICE privileges.

Weakness: CWE-697

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-23840?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Solarwinds Orion Platform.

How do I fix CVE-2023-23840?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-23840 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2023-23840 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-23840 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in SolarWinds Platform

• CVE-2020-10148 SolarWinds Orion Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-27258 Privilege escalation in Orion Platform Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-25274 Deserialization in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-9546 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-13169 Cross-site scripting in n/a Critical 9.0

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-pg7c-4mvg-5fmj.