CVE-2023-4769 Server-Side Request Forgery in ManageEngine Desktop Central

What is CVE-2023-4769?

CVE-2023-4769 is a medium-severity server-side request forgery vulnerability in ManageEngine Desktop Central, published on 3 Nov 2023. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A SSRF vulnerability has been found in ManageEngine Desktop Central affecting version 9.1.0, specifically the /smtpConfig.do component. This vulnerability could allow an authenticated attacker to launch targeted attacks, such as a cross-port attack, service enumeration and other attacks via HTTP requests.

Weakness: CWE-918

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-4769?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Zohocorp Manageengine Desktop Central.

How do I fix CVE-2023-4769?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-4769 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and send outbound requests through an allow-list that blocks internal addresses. More about Server-side request forgery.

Is CVE-2023-4769 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-4769 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in ManageEngine Desktop Central

• CVE-2021-44515 Zoho Desktop Central Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-10189 Zoho ManageEngine Desktop Central File Upload Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-7213 Auth bypass in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2014-9371 Code injection in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2020-15588 Integer overflow in n/a Critical 9.8

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-hmfj-v22f-3ww3.