# CVE-2023-45083: HyperCloud: "admin" and "serveradmin" users can be deleted

> An authenticated admin user can delete critical admin accounts, causing denial of service by preventing subsequent authentication to the management plane.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.2 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 5 Dec 2023
- **Updated:** 2 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-37pw-72qc-wmmj

## What is CVE-2023-45083?

CVE-2023-45083 is a medium-severity vulnerability in SoftIron HyperCloud, published on 5 Dec 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

An Improper Privilege Management vulnerability exists in HyperCloud that will impact the ability for a user to authenticate against the management plane.

An authenticated admin-level user may be able to delete the "admin" or "serveradmin" users, which prevents authentication from subsequently succeeding.

This issue affects HyperCloud versions 1.0 to any release before 2.1.

Weakness: CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-45083?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Softiron Hypercloud.

## How do I fix CVE-2023-45083?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-45083 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2023-45083 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-45083 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in SoftIron HyperCloud

- [CVE-2023-45084](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-45084/): Media caddy removal and reinsertion without reboot may cause data loss (high 7.0)
- [CVE-2023-45085](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-45085/): When compute hosts are disabled and reenabled, they immediately transition to "ON", not "INIT" (low 3.2)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-45083 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2023-45083 is a medium-severity vulnerability in SoftIron HyperCloud, published on 5 Dec 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-45083 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: SoftIron HyperCloud. 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-2023-45083/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-45083/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-45083
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-45083
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-45083

---
From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-45083/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.