CVE-2023-52723 Hardcoded credentials in n/a
High 7.1
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-52723 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2023-52723 is a high-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 29 Apr 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-52723 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: n/a. 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-2023-52723/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-52723/index.md)
An attacker with log access can read cleartext passwords due to a variable assignment error in the KDE libksieve library.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2023-52723?
CVE-2023-52723 is a high-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 29 Apr 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In KDE libksieve before 23.03.80, kmanagesieve/session.cpp places a cleartext password in server logs because a username variable is accidentally given a password value.
Weakness: CWE-798
Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-52723?
How do I fix CVE-2023-52723?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Is CVE-2023-52723 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-52723 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52723, DLA-3809-1, GHSA-v8mx-hp8h-89vc, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52723.