CVE-2023-29517 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-office-viewer
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2023-29517?
CVE-2023-29517 is a high-severity vulnerability in Xwiki Xwiki, published on 18 Apr 2023.
Official description
XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. The office document viewer macro was allowing anyone to see any file content from the hosting server, provided that the office server was connected and depending on the permissions of the user running the servlet engine (e.g. tomcat) running XWiki. The same vulnerability also allowed to perform internal requests to resources from the hosting server. The problem has been patched in XWiki 13.10.11, 14.10.1, 14.4.8, 15.0-rc-1. Users are advised to upgrade. It might be possible to workaround this vulnerability by running XWiki in a sandbox with a user with very low privileges on the machine.
Weakness: CWE-200
Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-29517?
6 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-office-viewer. It affects 1 product.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-office-viewer Maven | From 14.0-rc-1 | 14.4.8 |
org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-office-viewer Maven | From 14.0-rc-1 | 14.4.8 |
org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-office-viewer Maven | From 14.5 | 14.10.1 |
org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-office-viewer Maven | From 14.5 | 14.10.1 |
org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-office-viewer Maven | From 2.5-milestone-2 | 13.10.11 |
org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-office-viewer Maven | From 2.5-milestone-2 | 13.10.11 |
Products include Xwiki Xwiki.
How do I fix CVE-2023-29517?
Upgrade org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-office-viewer to a fixed version for your release line: 14.4.8, 14.10.1 or 13.10.11.
Is CVE-2023-29517 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2023-29517 exists.
Other vulnerabilities in Xwiki Xwiki
- CVE-2025-24893 XWiki Platform Eval Injection
- CVE-2025-53836 XWiki Rendering is vulnerable to RCE attacks when processing nested macros
- CVE-2024-55662 XWiki allows remote code execution through the extension sheet
- CVE-2024-55877 XWiki allows remote code execution from account through macro descriptions and XWiki.XWikiSyntaxMacrosList
- CVE-2024-37901 XWiki Platform vulnerable to remote code execution from account via SearchSuggestConfigSheet
Sources
Also known as GHSA-m3c3-9qj7-7xmx.