{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-40053 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2023-40053 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2023-40053 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Solarwinds Serv-U, published on 6 Dec 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-40053 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-40053 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Solarwinds Serv-U, published on 6 Dec 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-40053 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Solarwinds Serv-U. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. 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.\n2. 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.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-40053/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-40053/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-40053","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-40053/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-40053","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-7m83-852c-hhv7"],"analysis":{"component_type":"server_software","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["code_execution","security_bypass"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Serv-U FTP server","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Authenticated attackers can inject HTML into Serv-U file shares, potentially enabling cross-site scripting attacks against other users.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"xss"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"SolarWinds","cpe":[{"product":"serv-u","vendor":"solarwinds"}],"cvss":{"score":5,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-20","name":"Improper Input Validation"}],"description":"A vulnerability has been identified within Serv-U 15.4 that allows an authenticated actor to insert content on the file share function feature of Serv-U, which could be used maliciously.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"HTML injection Vulnerability in Serv-U 15.4","id":"CVE-2023-40053","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"solarwinds:serv-u","products":["solarwinds:serv-u"],"type":"xss","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager Directory Traversal Remote Code Execution Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2023-40054"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Progress Application Server (PAS) for OpenEdge Denial of Service","id":"CVE-2023-40052"},"products":["Serv-U"],"published":"2023-12-06","related":[{"cvss_score":9,"headline":"SolarWinds Serv-U Remote Code Execution","id":"CVE-2021-35211","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2021-07-14"},{"cvss_score":8.6,"headline":"SolarWinds Serv-U Path Traversal Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2024-28995","kev_date_added":"2024-07-17","published":"2024-06-06"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"SolarWinds Serv-U Uncontrolled Resource Consumption","id":"CVE-2026-28318","kev_date_added":"2026-06-05","published":"2026-06-04"},{"cvss_score":4.3,"headline":"SolarWinds Serv-U Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2021-35247","kev_date_added":"2022-01-21","published":"2022-01-07"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Code injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2020-35481","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-02-03"},{"cvss_score":9.1,"headline":"SolarWinds Serv-U Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2026-28302","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-07-21"},{"cvss_score":9.1,"headline":"SolarWinds Serv-U Remote Code Execution Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2026-28304","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-07-21"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-02","vendors":["SolarWinds"]},"summary":"Authenticated attackers can inject HTML into Serv-U file shares, potentially enabling cross-site scripting attacks against other users.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-40053/"}