CVE-2023-4640 Set Logging Level Without Authentication

What is CVE-2023-4640?

CVE-2023-4640 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in YugabyteDB Anywhere, published on 30 Aug 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The controller responsible for setting the logging level does not include any authorization checks to ensure the user is authenticated. This can be seen by noting that it extends Controller rather than AuthenticatedController and includes no further checks. This issue affects YugabyteDB Anywhere: from 2.0.0 through 2.17.3

Weakness: CWE-284

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-4640?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Yugabyte Yugabytedb.

How do I fix CVE-2023-4640?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-4640 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2023-4640 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-4640 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in YugabyteDB Anywhere

• CVE-2022-37397 The software is vulnerable when using LDAP-based authentication in YCQL with Microsoft’s Active Directory High 8.3
• CVE-2024-41435 Memory corruption in n/a High 7.5
• CVE-2023-0575 Remote Code Execution High 7.2
• CVE-2023-6002 Log Injection Medium 6.5
• CVE-2023-6001 Prometheus Metrics Accessible Pre-Authentication Medium 5.3

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-jqrr-cj4q-x8m4.