CVE-2023-5516 Information disclosure in eSOMS

What is CVE-2023-5516?

CVE-2023-5516 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Hitachi Energy eSOMS, published on 1 Nov 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Poorly constructed webap requests and URI components with special characters trigger unhandled errors and exceptions, disclosing information about the underlying technology and other sensitive information details. The website unintentionally reveals sensitive information including technical details like version Info, endpoints, backend server, Internal IP. etc., which can potentially expose additional attack surface containing other interesting vulnerabilities.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-5516?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Hitachienergy Esoms.

How do I fix CVE-2023-5516?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-5516 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2023-5516 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-5516 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Hitachi Energy eSOMS

• CVE-2018-14805 Auth bypass in ABB eSOMS Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-19094 ABB eSOMS: SQL injection vulnerability High 7.6
• CVE-2021-35527 Password Autocomplete Vulnerability in Hitachi ABB Power Grids eSOMS Application High 7.5
• CVE-2021-26845 eSOMS Report Function Vulnerability High 7.5
• CVE-2019-19000 eSOMS Cachecontrol (Pragma) HTTP Header Medium 6.5

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-prpr-2cpp-jg5f.