# CVE-2023-34203: Privilege escalation in n/a

> Remote authenticated users can escalate privileges to admin via URL injection in OpenEdge Management and Explorer.

- **Severity:** High 8.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 23 Jun 2023
- **Updated:** 2 Dec 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-4m7m-xch5-73g6

## What is CVE-2023-34203?

CVE-2023-34203 is a high-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 23 Jun 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

In Progress OpenEdge OEM (OpenEdge Management) and OEE (OpenEdge Explorer) before 12.7, a remote user (who has any OEM or OEE role) could perform a URL injection attack to change identity or role membership, e.g., escalate to admin. This affects OpenEdge LTS before 11.7.16, 12.x before 12.2.12, and 12.3.x through 12.6.x before 12.7.

Weakness: CWE-74 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-34203?

It affects 3 products.


Products: Progress Openedge, Progress Openedge Explorer, Progress Openedge Management.

## How do I fix CVE-2023-34203?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-34203 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2023-34203 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-34203 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in n/a

- [CVE-2024-1403](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1403/): Authentication Bypass in OpenEdge Authentication Gateway and AdminServer (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2007-2417](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2007-2417/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2015-9245](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-9245/): Misconfiguration in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2023-40051](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-40051/): Progress Application Server (PAS) for OpenEdge File Upload via Directory Traversal (critical 9.1)
- [CVE-2024-7345](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-7345/): Direct local client connections to MS Agents can bypass authentication (high 8.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-34203 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2023-34203 is a high-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 23 Jun 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-34203 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: n/a. 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-2023-34203/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-34203/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-34203
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-34203
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-34203

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-34203/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.