CVE-2023-3454 Command injection in Fabric OS

What is CVE-2023-3454?

CVE-2023-3454 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Broadcom Fabric Operating System, published on 4 Apr 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Brocade Fabric OS after v9.0 and before v9.2.0 could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code and use this to gain root access to the Brocade switch.

Weakness: CWE-78

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-3454?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Broadcom Fabric Operating System.

How do I fix CVE-2023-3454?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-3454 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-2023-3454 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-3454 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Broadcom Fabric Operating System

• CVE-2025-1976 Broadcom Brocade Fabric OS Code Injection Exploited High 8.6
• CVE-2021-22555 Linux Kernel Heap Out-of-Bounds Write Exploited High 8.3
• CVE-2022-33186 Command injection in Brocade Fabric OS Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-27797 Hardcoded credentials in Brocade Fabric OS Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-15371 Code injection in Brocade Fabric OS Critical 9.8

All Broadcom Fabric Operating System vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-9243-vfr2-5rcw.